The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 12
... barbican may be considered as the application to the whole castle of the principles which produced the forebuilding of a keep and thus they show the shift in importance from the keep to the curtain . They also had the Barbican effect of ...
... barbican may be considered as the application to the whole castle of the principles which produced the forebuilding of a keep and thus they show the shift in importance from the keep to the curtain . They also had the Barbican effect of ...
Page 182
... Barbican FLA Chepstow has only one gate ( N.W. ) Southampton had five : and most complex town gate in Britain , Bargate , the main gate to N. ( C12 , with C14-15 additions ) , Eastgate ( vanished ) , Watergate , Westgate and S.E. gate ...
... Barbican FLA Chepstow has only one gate ( N.W. ) Southampton had five : and most complex town gate in Britain , Bargate , the main gate to N. ( C12 , with C14-15 additions ) , Eastgate ( vanished ) , Watergate , Westgate and S.E. gate ...
Page 228
... barbican tower connected to shell - keep on motte by two attached towers , one semi - circular , the other polygonal . Major mediaeval castle , besieged in Civil War . Remains only of earthworks and scant masonry of keep . ( 159 , 166 ...
... barbican tower connected to shell - keep on motte by two attached towers , one semi - circular , the other polygonal . Major mediaeval castle , besieged in Civil War . Remains only of earthworks and scant masonry of keep . ( 159 , 166 ...
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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