English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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Page 53
... Henry II between 1165 and 1173 , is cylindrical inside but polygonal outside , the whole being strengthened and supported by three great buttress towers built against every fifth outer face . The keep at Chilham , built in the 1170s ...
... Henry II between 1165 and 1173 , is cylindrical inside but polygonal outside , the whole being strengthened and supported by three great buttress towers built against every fifth outer face . The keep at Chilham , built in the 1170s ...
Page 117
... Henry II , for which the Pipe Rolls provide us with in- formation , we may perhaps turn first to Orford . For at Orford on the Suffolk coast King Henry built an entirely new castle , that is to say one raised from its foundations in one ...
... Henry II , for which the Pipe Rolls provide us with in- formation , we may perhaps turn first to Orford . For at Orford on the Suffolk coast King Henry built an entirely new castle , that is to say one raised from its foundations in one ...
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... Henry's eldest son who was crowned in his father's lifetime . At Nottingham , again , much of the heavy expenditure by Henry II was devoted to the residential quarters within the castle . A new great hall was built between 1180 and 1183 ...
... Henry's eldest son who was crowned in his father's lifetime . At Nottingham , again , much of the heavy expenditure by Henry II was devoted to the residential quarters within the castle . A new great hall was built between 1180 and 1183 ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
Introduction | 17 |
Early Stone Castles 35 336 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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