Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 113
... Gate in St. Thomas's Tower ( Traitors ' Gate ) , the moat system with the Byward Tower and Middle Tower gates , and the barbican , are all the work of the later . Dover and the Tower are both remarkable as medieval buildings still in ...
... Gate in St. Thomas's Tower ( Traitors ' Gate ) , the moat system with the Byward Tower and Middle Tower gates , and the barbican , are all the work of the later . Dover and the Tower are both remarkable as medieval buildings still in ...
Page 121
... Gate is much like any twin - towered gateway of the previous century ; but if we compare it with , say , the Upper Gate at Conway , built sixty years earlier , we find that a wall - thickness of 6 feet has given place to one of 4 feet ...
... Gate is much like any twin - towered gateway of the previous century ; but if we compare it with , say , the Upper Gate at Conway , built sixty years earlier , we find that a wall - thickness of 6 feet has given place to one of 4 feet ...
Page 211
... gates ( 1 ) , ( N ) , ( K ) , are on the sites of Roman gates , as is the west , or Balkerne , gate ( seen in the centre of the west wall ) with its impressive remains of the three original Roman archways ; here the road from London ...
... gates ( 1 ) , ( N ) , ( K ) , are on the sites of Roman gates , as is the west , or Balkerne , gate ( seen in the centre of the west wall ) with its impressive remains of the three original Roman archways ; here the road from London ...
Contents
in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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