The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... CAERNARVON ARCH Late C13 / early C14 architectural feature in which doorway heads are formed of a horizontal lintel supported on two corbels instead of the customary arch . So called because of the prevalence of this feature at Caernarvon ...
... CAERNARVON ARCH Late C13 / early C14 architectural feature in which doorway heads are formed of a horizontal lintel supported on two corbels instead of the customary arch . So called because of the prevalence of this feature at Caernarvon ...
Page 54
... Caernarvon , Calais , Carisbrooke , Conway , Corfe , Portchester , Queenborough , Rochester , Southampton , Tintagel , Trematon , Winchester castles . Town walls at Canterbury and elsewhere were strengthened and many private houses were ...
... Caernarvon , Calais , Carisbrooke , Conway , Corfe , Portchester , Queenborough , Rochester , Southampton , Tintagel , Trematon , Winchester castles . Town walls at Canterbury and elsewhere were strengthened and many private houses were ...
Page 190
... Caernarvon and Beaumaris . At Caerphilly the gallery in south wall , between hall and moat , solves a problem of defence occasioned by the crowding of domestic buildings . WALL TOWERS see also Cavalier Towers . Towers at the angles of ...
... Caernarvon and Beaumaris . At Caerphilly the gallery in south wall , between hall and moat , solves a problem of defence occasioned by the crowding of domestic buildings . WALL TOWERS see also Cavalier Towers . Towers at the angles of ...
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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