English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 55
... residential rôle . Even so , from the earliest period other residential or non - military buildings , including most often a hall and chapel , were frequently included among the " houses " in the bailey , for the garrison and serving ...
... residential rôle . Even so , from the earliest period other residential or non - military buildings , including most often a hall and chapel , were frequently included among the " houses " in the bailey , for the garrison and serving ...
Page 109
... residential buildings , hither- to cramped and confined by the overwhelming necessities of defence , is increasingly the measure of new work at existing castles , after the manner , though not always on the scale , of Kenilworth and ...
... residential buildings , hither- to cramped and confined by the overwhelming necessities of defence , is increasingly the measure of new work at existing castles , after the manner , though not always on the scale , of Kenilworth and ...
Page 110
... residential buildings in the medie- val castle to the point where , in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries , they break free from military restrictions is seldom shown better than at Carew in Pembrokeshire . Within the present ruin of ...
... residential buildings in the medie- val castle to the point where , in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries , they break free from military restrictions is seldom shown better than at Carew in Pembrokeshire . Within the present ruin of ...
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