The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... England and Wales but the order was suppressed in 1312 on dubious grounds of heresy and their property was either pillaged or transferred to the Knights Hospitaller . The Hospitallers ( or Order of St John of Jerusalem ) were very ...
... England and Wales but the order was suppressed in 1312 on dubious grounds of heresy and their property was either pillaged or transferred to the Knights Hospitaller . The Hospitallers ( or Order of St John of Jerusalem ) were very ...
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... England ( 1966-76 ) . For royal castles : The History of the King's Works ( London 1963 ) , Brown , Colwin , Taylor ; English Mediaeval Castles , R. A. Brown ( 1954 ) is an excellent introduction which , for Britain , might be ...
... England ( 1966-76 ) . For royal castles : The History of the King's Works ( London 1963 ) , Brown , Colwin , Taylor ; English Mediaeval Castles , R. A. Brown ( 1954 ) is an excellent introduction which , for Britain , might be ...
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... England ' . Motte encircled with revetted shell - keep ( 160 ft diameter ) with foundation of rectangular keep ( 50 ft × 40 ft ) within . More substantial remains of C15 gatehouse . ' Outer bailey ' extending to church was probably ...
... England ' . Motte encircled with revetted shell - keep ( 160 ft diameter ) with foundation of rectangular keep ( 50 ft × 40 ft ) within . More substantial remains of C15 gatehouse . ' Outer bailey ' extending to church was probably ...
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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 Corfe crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure England entrance examples fire 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 Scarborough Scottish shell-keep siege engines sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls Trebuchet turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire