The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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Page 32
... staircase , which was so inconvenient that the door was afterwards moved down to the ground level . The keep was so ... staircases and latrines . There is a stepped plinth . The cross - wall between the two halves of the tower has ...
... staircase , which was so inconvenient that the door was afterwards moved down to the ground level . The keep was so ... staircases and latrines . There is a stepped plinth . The cross - wall between the two halves of the tower has ...
Page 36
... staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase to any hall - keep in the country , entirely enclosed by high walls and most elaborately orna- mented on its outer face and round its lower doorway ( 35 ) ...
... staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase to any hall - keep in the country , entirely enclosed by high walls and most elaborately orna- mented on its outer face and round its lower doorway ( 35 ) ...
Page 39
... staircase in his keeps , as the old square angles in which they used to be situated had been done away with . He there- fore built a separate turret up the side to take the stair , which at Orford he balanced with two other similar ...
... staircase in his keeps , as the old square angles in which they used to be situated had been done away with . He there- fore built a separate turret up the side to take the stair , which at Orford he balanced with two other similar ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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