The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... Bamburgh , Conisbrough , Scarborough ) show the basic feature of a projecting gatehouse with a narrow passage linking this gatehouse to an entrance through the curtain . In the late C13 and C14 the barbican was an addition to the ...
... Bamburgh , Conisbrough , Scarborough ) show the basic feature of a projecting gatehouse with a narrow passage linking this gatehouse to an entrance through the curtain . In the late C13 and C14 the barbican was an addition to the ...
Page 58
... Bamburgh , Colchester . EPISCOPAL CASTLES Distribution . see also Because mediaeval bishops were also feudal lords and landowners they had the function and duties of that state . This included the lordship of castles . In some ...
... Bamburgh , Colchester . EPISCOPAL CASTLES Distribution . see also Because mediaeval bishops were also feudal lords and landowners they had the function and duties of that state . This included the lordship of castles . In some ...
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... Bamburgh for five years in defiance of Edward II and Parliament ( 1370-5 ) . Queen Phillipa beat Scots off from Bamburgh while her husband ( Edward III ) was besieging Berwick ( 1332 ) . Lady Joan Pelham held Pevensey against the ...
... Bamburgh for five years in defiance of Edward II and Parliament ( 1370-5 ) . Queen Phillipa beat Scots off from Bamburgh while her husband ( Edward III ) was besieging Berwick ( 1332 ) . Lady Joan Pelham held Pevensey against the ...
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Aberdeenshire Alnwick assault Bamburgh barbican barmkin baronial basement battlements Beaumaris besiegers built C12 E O Caernarvon Caerphilly chamber chapel Chepstow church Conisbrough constable Conway crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure engines England entrance examples fireplace flanking floor forebuilding fortified manor-house fragments ft high garrison gate gatehouse ground hall Harlech Henry Henry III Herefordshire inner bailey Invernesshire keep Kenilworth Kidwelly kitchen knights L-plan later London Tower loops lord machicolated manor masonry mediaeval moat motte motte-and-bailey mound mural murder-holes Newcastle Norman North Riding Northumberland original outer bailey palisade parapet pele pele-tower Pontefract Portchester portcullis postern prison protected rectangular remains of curtain ring-work Rochester roof royal castles ruins Scottish shell-keep siege sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire