The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 70
... Rochester and Newcastle ( the latter may be due to a reduction in the planned number of floors ) . The Rochester gallery surrounds the entire tower and communicates with the vices in the S.W. and N.E. angles . It opens on the tower ...
... Rochester and Newcastle ( the latter may be due to a reduction in the planned number of floors ) . The Rochester gallery surrounds the entire tower and communicates with the vices in the S.W. and N.E. angles . It opens on the tower ...
Page 93
... 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 susceptible to ...
... 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 susceptible to ...
Page 95
... Rochester , Saltwood , Sandgate , Scotney , St John's Jerusalem , Sutton Valence , Thurnham , Tonbridge , Tonge , Upnor , Walmer , West Malling . KINCARDINESHIRE Crathes is a good tower - house , Dunnottar an interesting castle and in ...
... Rochester , Saltwood , Sandgate , Scotney , St John's Jerusalem , Sutton Valence , Thurnham , Tonbridge , Tonge , Upnor , Walmer , West Malling . KINCARDINESHIRE Crathes is a good tower - house , Dunnottar an interesting castle and in ...
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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