The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 70
... wall . The best way , however , of efficiently commanding the whole external face of a castle wall , is by constructing towers projecting from it towards the field , so that persons standing on their summits can shoot sideways along the ...
... wall . The best way , however , of efficiently commanding the whole external face of a castle wall , is by constructing towers projecting from it towards the field , so that persons standing on their summits can shoot sideways along the ...
Page 71
Hugh Braun. towers plentifully disposed around their high walls , serving both as buttresses and as wall - towers for the protection of the curtains . It will be remembered that the military architects of this country had already been ...
Hugh Braun. towers plentifully disposed around their high walls , serving both as buttresses and as wall - towers for the protection of the curtains . It will be remembered that the military architects of this country had already been ...
Page 72
... wall - towers ) , but , generally speaking , the standard type of castle wall of the thirteenth century took the form of lofty curtains with semicircular wall - towers pro- jecting , as at Pevensey ( 63 ) . The wall - tower in its ...
... wall - towers ) , but , generally speaking , the standard type of castle wall of the thirteenth century took the form of lofty curtains with semicircular wall - towers pro- jecting , as at Pevensey ( 63 ) . The wall - tower in its ...
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