The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... DURHAM THE CASTLE NORTH SMILEY In a county disturbed by continual Scots raids , mediaeval military architecture was more developed than domestic or religious building . As Pevsner says , ' No student of mediaeval castles can afford to ...
... DURHAM THE CASTLE NORTH SMILEY In a county disturbed by continual Scots raids , mediaeval military architecture was more developed than domestic or religious building . As Pevsner says , ' No student of mediaeval castles can afford to ...
Page 58
... Durham ) . The entrance to the Great Tower or Keep was usually on the first floor and originally by a movable ladder or a ' broken ' stair . When this was replaced by a permanent stone staircase it had an added forebuilding ( q.v. ) ...
... Durham ) . The entrance to the Great Tower or Keep was usually on the first floor and originally by a movable ladder or a ' broken ' stair . When this was replaced by a permanent stone staircase it had an added forebuilding ( q.v. ) ...
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... DURHAM , Durham 2742 c . 1080 , C12 B + P ( Univ . ) Motte - and - bailey on naturally strong triangular site in loop of Wear . In spite of use as bishop's palace and university college , much original work remains including doorway to ...
... DURHAM , Durham 2742 c . 1080 , C12 B + P ( Univ . ) Motte - and - bailey on naturally strong triangular site in loop of Wear . In spite of use as bishop's palace and university college , much original work remains including doorway to ...
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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