English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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... later Middle Ages which , though increasingly con- centrated upon domestic amenities , are not thereby neces- sarily smaller in scale or lacking in interest . Moreover , the examples of building so far used have all been of royal works ...
... later Middle Ages which , though increasingly con- centrated upon domestic amenities , are not thereby neces- sarily smaller in scale or lacking in interest . Moreover , the examples of building so far used have all been of royal works ...
Page 155
... later twelfth century we find flat roofs covered with lead pro- vided in castles , especially on keeps and towers , for petra- riae , though there was always some danger of vibration weakening the masonry . Cannon in the later Middle ...
... later twelfth century we find flat roofs covered with lead pro- vided in castles , especially on keeps and towers , for petra- riae , though there was always some danger of vibration weakening the masonry . Cannon in the later Middle ...
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... later date — to receive into her castle a force commanded by Geoffrey de Neville and Fawkes de Bréauté , sent there to harry the king's enemies . A little later in the same year the royal gar- rison from the recently captured Rochester ...
... later date — to receive into her castle a force commanded by Geoffrey de Neville and Fawkes de Bréauté , sent there to harry the king's enemies . A little later in the same year the royal gar- rison from the recently captured Rochester ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
Introduction | 17 |
Early Stone Castles 35 336 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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amongst attack barbican Beaumaris Bedford Bodiam Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover earl early earthwork Edward England English castles English Medieval Castles entrance example flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey inner ward keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe knights labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised records reign residence residential Rhuddlan Rochester rôle round royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber tower keep Tower of London tower-house tury twelfth century walls warfare whole William Windsor