English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Page 68
... whole circuit of the castle walls , and very often , indeed , the strongest building in the whole castle . As early as the twelfth century the idea of the flanking tower first begins to appear applied to the castle gateway . Thus the ...
... whole circuit of the castle walls , and very often , indeed , the strongest building in the whole castle . As early as the twelfth century the idea of the flanking tower first begins to appear applied to the castle gateway . Thus the ...
Page 83
... whole , and the main entrance defended by a barbican and a series of characteristic gatehouses , of which the Middle Tower and the Byward Tower remain . Here it is particularly interesting to see that , as the result of these encircling ...
... whole , and the main entrance defended by a barbican and a series of characteristic gatehouses , of which the Middle Tower and the Byward Tower remain . Here it is particularly interesting to see that , as the result of these encircling ...
Page 96
... whole castle is surrounded by a broad lake , and the main entrance was originally elaborately defended not only by its gate- house but also by an enforced right - angled approach , comprising an outwork , barbican and two drawbridges ...
... whole castle is surrounded by a broad lake , and the main entrance was originally elaborately defended not only by its gate- house but also by an enforced right - angled approach , comprising an outwork , barbican and two drawbridges ...
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