English Castles, Volume 22B. T. Batsford, 1962 - 207 pages |
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... strong corner ' . Within the bailey were placed the other buildings necessary to the castle in its rôle as fortress , residence and , very often , the administrative centre of a district - a hall for meals , which was also the centre of ...
... strong corner ' . Within the bailey were placed the other buildings necessary to the castle in its rôle as fortress , residence and , very often , the administrative centre of a district - a hall for meals , which was also the centre of ...
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... strong gatehouse is thrown round it like a loose girdle , and though the main pile has in places ma- sonry of immense thickness and incorporates some four strong towers , the place is emphatically first and foremost a residence , to ...
... strong gatehouse is thrown round it like a loose girdle , and though the main pile has in places ma- sonry of immense thickness and incorporates some four strong towers , the place is emphatically first and foremost a residence , to ...
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... strong , the buildings are disposed in orderly fashion round two courtyards each with a defended gate- way , and the main walls are of strong width and good stone . Yet the beautiful range of ruined domestic buildings which are the most ...
... strong , the buildings are disposed in orderly fashion round two courtyards each with a defended gate- way , and the main walls are of strong width and good stone . Yet the beautiful range of ruined domestic buildings which are the most ...
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