English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 127
... Wales and was designed to perpetuate it . The urgency of military necessity also , as at Château- Gaillard , lies behind the speed with which the work was in the main carried through . Here Beaumaris ( 1295-1323 ) and Carnarvon ( 1283 ...
... Wales and was designed to perpetuate it . The urgency of military necessity also , as at Château- Gaillard , lies behind the speed with which the work was in the main carried through . Here Beaumaris ( 1295-1323 ) and Carnarvon ( 1283 ...
Page 128
... Wales and the Marches they came , but from North- umberland and Yorkshire in the north , Nottinghamshire and North- amptonshire in the midlands , Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex in the east , Oxfordshire , Wiltshire , Dorset and Somerset in ...
... Wales and the Marches they came , but from North- umberland and Yorkshire in the north , Nottinghamshire and North- amptonshire in the midlands , Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex in the east , Oxfordshire , Wiltshire , Dorset and Somerset in ...
Page 131
... Wales , he was closely connected with Flint , Rhuddlan , Conway and Harlech and directly responsible for the plan and design of the perfect con- centric castle at Beaumaris . He was well rewarded by the royal master he served so ably ...
... Wales , he was closely connected with Flint , Rhuddlan , Conway and Harlech and directly responsible for the plan and design of the perfect con- centric castle at Beaumaris . He was well rewarded by the royal master he served so ably ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castle English medieval entrance example feature flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kent Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle 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 ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire