The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 37
Page 25
Hugh Braun. has lived in a timber house knows how it is apt to twist and flop if it is insufficiently braced . It seems possible that the classical principle may have reached the timber builders of Normandy about the time when the first ...
Hugh Braun. has lived in a timber house knows how it is apt to twist and flop if it is insufficiently braced . It seems possible that the classical principle may have reached the timber builders of Normandy about the time when the first ...
Page 53
... timber castle as fireproof as possible . This was done by building a stone gate - tower , a small square structure having usually one upper floor carried over the entrance passage by a pair of sturdy round - headed arches . EGREMONT CASTLE ...
... timber castle as fireproof as possible . This was done by building a stone gate - tower , a small square structure having usually one upper floor carried over the entrance passage by a pair of sturdy round - headed arches . EGREMONT CASTLE ...
Page 86
... castle , but at the Beauchamp castle of Elmley in Worcestershire the plan of the collegiate chapel has yet to be recovered by excavation . Easily the majority of castles in this country were originally founded as earth and timber ...
... castle , but at the Beauchamp castle of Elmley in Worcestershire the plan of the collegiate chapel has yet to be recovered by excavation . Easily the majority of castles in this country were originally founded as earth and timber ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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