The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... surrounded . By about the year 1100 , some of the larger castles in the south of England , such as London and Rochester , were having their defences rebuilt in stone . During the reign of Henry I , several of the provincial residential ...
... surrounded . By about the year 1100 , some of the larger castles in the south of England , such as London and Rochester , were having their defences rebuilt in stone . During the reign of Henry I , several of the provincial residential ...
Page 86
... surrounded by lofty curtains and with a circular tower at each angle . Such castles were built at Barnwell in Northamptonshire in 1264 ( 65 ) and at Somerton in Lincolnshire in 1281. The first is almost perfect , but only one tower and ...
... surrounded by lofty curtains and with a circular tower at each angle . Such castles were built at Barnwell in Northamptonshire in 1264 ( 65 ) and at Somerton in Lincolnshire in 1281. The first is almost perfect , but only one tower and ...
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... surrounded by a timber defence . Then came the stone defensible house still surrounded by a timber palisade . The palisade being replaced by defensible stone walls , the house could then be of timber . When the walls were raised into ...
... surrounded by a timber defence . Then came the stone defensible house still surrounded by a timber palisade . The palisade being replaced by defensible stone walls , the house could then be of timber . When the walls were raised into ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chepstow Chilham circular constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortified fortress fourteenth century Framlingham gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly later latrines lord main floor masonry Maxstoke mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet triforium twelfth century upper usually wall-towers Yorkshire