The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 42
... Portchester , Rochester , Scarborough ) . In towers of oblong plan it usually divided them into unequal rectangles ( e.g. Middleham , Rising ) . The cross - wall at Bowes is so eccentric that it divides the keep into large square ...
... Portchester , Rochester , Scarborough ) . In towers of oblong plan it usually divided them into unequal rectangles ( e.g. Middleham , Rising ) . The cross - wall at Bowes is so eccentric that it divides the keep into large square ...
Page 80
... Portchester ( later converted to tower ) , Rising , Sherborne ( ruinous ) , Wolvesey . HAMPSHIRE Though Hampshire is not a castle county , it has examples of military architecture which the explorer can hardly afford to miss . First is ...
... Portchester ( later converted to tower ) , Rising , Sherborne ( ruinous ) , Wolvesey . HAMPSHIRE Though Hampshire is not a castle county , it has examples of military architecture which the explorer can hardly afford to miss . First is ...
Page 93
... Portchester , Rochester , Scarborough . Internal access to the floors was usually by a staircase in the thickness of the wall and often situated in a corner . Keeps were originally square or rectangular in plan but their corners were ...
... Portchester , Rochester , Scarborough . Internal access to the floors was usually by a staircase in the thickness of the wall and often situated in a corner . Keeps were originally square or rectangular in plan but their corners were ...
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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