English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 74
... strength was provided by the single cir- cuit of its towered walls ( 38 , 39 , 69 , 70 ) . Both , it may be noted ... strength of the castle . At Conway drum towers are used , still pleasingly dramatic in the sheer strength of their ...
... strength was provided by the single cir- cuit of its towered walls ( 38 , 39 , 69 , 70 ) . Both , it may be noted ... strength of the castle . At Conway drum towers are used , still pleasingly dramatic in the sheer strength of their ...
Page 76
... strength and lower in elevation than the main towered wall which thus covers it by fire - power , and to which it is simply an outer - ring defence . The outer wall is in effect , if the term be preferred , a vast barbican protecting ...
... strength and lower in elevation than the main towered wall which thus covers it by fire - power , and to which it is simply an outer - ring defence . The outer wall is in effect , if the term be preferred , a vast barbican protecting ...
Page 109
... strength and comfort together into a small space . The tower - houses of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , however , show generally the same growing supremacy of comfort over strength characteristic of other military architecture ...
... strength and comfort together into a small space . The tower - houses of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , however , show generally the same growing supremacy of comfort over strength characteristic of other military architecture ...
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