The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... floor beneath the main floor . The span of the tower is so large that it had to be divided in half by a cross - wall to help carry the roof ( about thirty feet seems to have been the maximum span of a floor - beam in those days ) , but ...
... floor beneath the main floor . The span of the tower is so large that it had to be divided in half by a cross - wall to help carry the roof ( about thirty feet seems to have been the maximum span of a floor - beam in those days ) , but ...
Page 38
... floors : a storage base- ment , a hall floor with the entrance in it , and a chamber on the second floor under the roof . Some of the later keeps , however , go in for the luxury of a separate entrance floor . At Bramber in Sussex a ...
... floors : a storage base- ment , a hall floor with the entrance in it , and a chamber on the second floor under the roof . Some of the later keeps , however , go in for the luxury of a separate entrance floor . At Bramber in Sussex a ...
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... floor as at Newcastle and a floor above that which is the entrance floor , thus copying the Northumbrian tower . The entrance stair is even more elaborate than Newcastle . In addition to the two towers on either side of the main doorway ...
... floor as at Newcastle and a floor above that which is the entrance floor , thus copying the Northumbrian tower . The entrance stair is even more elaborate than Newcastle . In addition to the two towers on either side of the main doorway ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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