The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 32
... forebuilding has now dis- appeared , but its position is shown by the larger windows , which it once protected , at the southern end of the gallery of the great hall . As the hall was at a higher level than the entrance floor of the ...
... forebuilding has now dis- appeared , but its position is shown by the larger windows , which it once protected , at the southern end of the gallery of the great hall . As the hall was at a higher level than the entrance floor of the ...
Page 37
... forebuilding , which appears to have a solid basement , as have all the bastions , that farthest from the entrance having had the latrines in its upper storey . Possibly this keep had no chamber , unless it was on a second floor over ...
... forebuilding , which appears to have a solid basement , as have all the bastions , that farthest from the entrance having had the latrines in its upper storey . Possibly this keep had no chamber , unless it was on a second floor over ...
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... forebuilding . Underneath the great stair is a very beautiful chapel . This is an unusual place for a religious building , which should never have had a secular structure between it and the sky . Possibly , however , the stair was ...
... forebuilding . Underneath the great stair is a very beautiful chapel . This is an unusual place for a religious building , which should never have had a secular structure between it and the sky . Possibly , however , the stair was ...
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