English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 41
... appearance to the lavish care bestowed upon by Henry III ( 91 ) . it So much , then , for the bailey , which is now defended by a stone wall and gateway as well as by its ditch and earthen ramparts , and contains the hall , chapel and ...
... appearance to the lavish care bestowed upon by Henry III ( 91 ) . it So much , then , for the bailey , which is now defended by a stone wall and gateway as well as by its ditch and earthen ramparts , and contains the hall , chapel and ...
Page 55
... appearance , the residential aspect of the tower keeps is usually apparent within them , however spartan by modern standards they may seem , while the fact that Edward III built new lodgings within the shell at Windsor , and that his ...
... appearance , the residential aspect of the tower keeps is usually apparent within them , however spartan by modern standards they may seem , while the fact that Edward III built new lodgings within the shell at Windsor , and that his ...
Page 181
... appearance to the taste of the same King Henry III - which is to be repaired and its cracks filled in , while the king's seat in the hall is to be repainted and so are the doors and the windows , and the pictures above the king's dais ...
... appearance to the taste of the same King Henry III - which is to be repaired and its cracks filled in , while the king's seat in the hall is to be repainted and so are the doors and the windows , and the pictures above the king's dais ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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amongst attack barbican barons Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris Bedford Bréauté building built Caerphilly Carnarvon Castle Hedingham Castle Rising castle-building castle's castles in Wales centre chamber chapel Château-Gaillard chronicler concentrated concentric castle Conquest contemporary Conway decline defence ditch Dover Durham Earl early earthwork Edward eleventh century England English castles English medieval entrance example feature flanking towers fortification fortress fourteenth century garrison gate gatehouse gateway Ground plan hall Harlech Henry II inner bailey keep-and-bailey castle Kenilworth Kidwelly King John king's Kirby Muxloe labour later Middle Ages lord machicolated mangonel medieval castle medieval military architecture Middle Ages military importance moat motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castle mound Norman Orford outer bailey pele towers perhaps period Pipe Rolls quadrangular raised ramparts records reign residence residential Rochester rôle royal castles shell keep side siege siege-craft stands stone castle storey strength stronghold Suffolk surviving thirteenth century timber Tower of London tower-house twelfth century warfare whole Windsor Yorkshire