The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war . In its early development it followed the rule of all English things in that it ...
... English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war . In its early development it followed the rule of all English things in that it ...
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... castle is known all over the world as the chapel of the Knights of the Garter . The ruins of its collegiate church form the greater part remaining to - day of the castle of Hastings . The foundations of an enormous ... CASTLE THE ENGLISH.
... castle is known all over the world as the chapel of the Knights of the Garter . The ruins of its collegiate church form the greater part remaining to - day of the castle of Hastings . The foundations of an enormous ... CASTLE THE ENGLISH.
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... castle , being long , rather hour - glass like structures surrounded by straight lines of very lofty curtains and many lofty towers . The towers at Conway are circular and those of Caernarvon octagonal . The walls and ... CASTLE THE ENGLISH.
... castle , being long , rather hour - glass like structures surrounded by straight lines of very lofty curtains and many lofty towers . The towers at Conway are circular and those of Caernarvon octagonal . The walls and ... CASTLE THE ENGLISH.
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chepstow Chilham circular constructed crenellated cross-wall curtains defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortress fourteenth century gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly later latrines lofty lord main floor masonry MAXSTOKE mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet triforium twelfth century upper usually wall-towers WARWICKSHIRE Yorkshire