The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 76
... halls of the hall - keeps . This feature existed at Chepstow , Newark and Spofforth , and is repeated in the undercrofts of many monastic dormitories , and in the houses of their abbots which often formed part of the western range ...
... halls of the hall - keeps . This feature existed at Chepstow , Newark and Spofforth , and is repeated in the undercrofts of many monastic dormitories , and in the houses of their abbots which often formed part of the western range ...
Page 77
Hugh Braun. bishops . The hall at Wolvesey appears to have had some sort of triforium lighting , Sherborne had an external wall - arcade high up round the hall and Bishop's Waltham an arcade behind the dais , a frequent feature of Norman ...
Hugh Braun. bishops . The hall at Wolvesey appears to have had some sort of triforium lighting , Sherborne had an external wall - arcade high up round the hall and Bishop's Waltham an arcade behind the dais , a frequent feature of Norman ...
Page 79
... hall with stone columns separating " nave " from aisles seems to have been popular . The beautiful example at Winchester Castle ( 66 ) may have originally been a Norman hall with timber columns before the present graceful ones were ...
... hall with stone columns separating " nave " from aisles seems to have been popular . The beautiful example at Winchester Castle ( 66 ) may have originally been a Norman hall with timber columns before the present graceful ones were ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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