The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... turning their attention to rebuilding their timber houses in stone , it seems to have occurred to them that while they ... turn the building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose ...
... turning their attention to rebuilding their timber houses in stone , it seems to have occurred to them that while they ... turn the building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose ...
Page 43
... turning the space between them into an adequate , if roofless , forebuilding . Underneath the great stair is a very ... turn annoy the besiegers . The windows were all kept high off the floor and thus had sloping or stepped stills to ...
... turning the space between them into an adequate , if roofless , forebuilding . Underneath the great stair is a very ... turn annoy the besiegers . The windows were all kept high off the floor and thus had sloping or stepped stills to ...
Page 55
... turn their attention to the better protection of their castle yards with higher stone walls . Let us therefore turn to the reasons for this change of policy . CHAPTER III LOFTY WALLS " And ever stode the lordes I GREAT STONE TOWERS 57.
... turn their attention to the better protection of their castle yards with higher stone walls . Let us therefore turn to the reasons for this change of policy . CHAPTER III LOFTY WALLS " And ever stode the lordes I GREAT STONE TOWERS 57.
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