The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... beautiful architectural style . From their Scandinavian ancestors they had inherited the fine timber technique - a love of soaring pillared halls with slender shafts lending such grace to the interiors as had never before been known in ...
... beautiful architectural style . From their Scandinavian ancestors they had inherited the fine timber technique - a love of soaring pillared halls with slender shafts lending such grace to the interiors as had never before been known in ...
Page 36
... beautiful main door- way of the keep was turned into a fireplace in Tudor days . From the forebuilding in which this is situated an exceptionally beauti- ful staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase ...
... beautiful main door- way of the keep was turned into a fireplace in Tudor days . From the forebuilding in which this is situated an exceptionally beauti- ful staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase ...
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... beautiful Countess of Salisbury at the castle of Wark in Northumberland , was so impressed with her virtuous resis- tance to his advances as to found the Order of the Garter to celebrate such model conduct . Nothing would suit such ...
... beautiful Countess of Salisbury at the castle of Wark in Northumberland , was so impressed with her virtuous resis- tance to his advances as to found the Order of the Garter to celebrate such model conduct . Nothing would suit such ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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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 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 king later latrines 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 Saxon 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