The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... gatehouse ( 86 ) , placed close to the angle , has absorbed the angle tower , which appears as a bulge on its external flank . The very fine gatehouse of the little castle of Leybourne in Kent also shows a bulge of this description , in ...
... gatehouse ( 86 ) , placed close to the angle , has absorbed the angle tower , which appears as a bulge on its external flank . The very fine gatehouse of the little castle of Leybourne in Kent also shows a bulge of this description , in ...
Page 103
... gatehouse . With the development of the courtyard plan , however , these rooms became absorbed in the rest of the range of buildings , and only the entrance passage itself remains to be raised into a lofty block in proper gatehouse ...
... gatehouse . With the development of the courtyard plan , however , these rooms became absorbed in the rest of the range of buildings , and only the entrance passage itself remains to be raised into a lofty block in proper gatehouse ...
Page 104
... gatehouse with its twin stair- turrets , was added in advance of the gate , as at Carisbrooke ( 103 ) or Lewes ( 102 ) . These barbicans usually date from the middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last ...
... gatehouse with its twin stair- turrets , was added in advance of the gate , as at Carisbrooke ( 103 ) or Lewes ( 102 ) . These barbicans usually date from the middle of the fourteenth century . The turreted gatehouse was the last ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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