The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... containing hall . Often consists of a simple walled courtyard , without flanking towers or gatehouse , protecting the entrance of the hall and providing some sort of cover for animals and harvest . A barmkin might be seen as a ...
... containing hall . Often consists of a simple walled courtyard , without flanking towers or gatehouse , protecting the entrance of the hall and providing some sort of cover for animals and harvest . A barmkin might be seen as a ...
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... containing one or more doors with a connecting passage . The passage thus enclosed later carried a gallery entered by a vice in Hall - Keep a corner of the end wall . Warwick Gatehouse ( from inside ) 5. Armet ( early C16 ) Henry II ...
... containing one or more doors with a connecting passage . The passage thus enclosed later carried a gallery entered by a vice in Hall - Keep a corner of the end wall . Warwick Gatehouse ( from inside ) 5. Armet ( early C16 ) Henry II ...
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... containing a central courtyard e.g. Bolton ( lc . 1379 ) , Sheriff Hutton ( lc . 1382 ) . The structure provides a logical combination of castle and house where the usual precautions for defence were taken and where more convenient ...
... containing a central courtyard e.g. Bolton ( lc . 1379 ) , Sheriff Hutton ( lc . 1382 ) . The structure provides a logical combination of castle and house where the usual precautions for defence were taken and where more convenient ...
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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