The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 72
... thirteenth century took the form of lofty curtains with semicircular wall - towers pro- jecting , as at Pevensey ( 63 ) . The wall - tower in its square form was actually quite a useful structure . Towards the middle of the thirteenth ...
... thirteenth century took the form of lofty curtains with semicircular wall - towers pro- jecting , as at Pevensey ( 63 ) . The wall - tower in its square form was actually quite a useful structure . Towards the middle of the thirteenth ...
Page 86
... of the thirteenth century . New devices were also being improved for assaulting the bases of the walls . The ditches STATELY 87 STRONGHOLDS The Castle as a Dwelling-Place The great Edwardian Castles of the Thirteenth Century.
... of the thirteenth century . New devices were also being improved for assaulting the bases of the walls . The ditches STATELY 87 STRONGHOLDS The Castle as a Dwelling-Place The great Edwardian Castles of the Thirteenth Century.
Page 86
... thirteenth century , that of Queenborough in Sheppey , begun in 1361 . The four - lobed keep of York seems to have set the fashion for what one might call " bulgy " towers . The twin - towered gatehouse of the castle of the thirteenth ...
... thirteenth century , that of Queenborough in Sheppey , begun in 1361 . The four - lobed keep of York seems to have set the fashion for what one might call " bulgy " towers . The twin - towered gatehouse of the castle of the thirteenth ...
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