The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... crenellate ' means to ' fortify ' . A royal licence ( q.v. ) to crenellate was required before a lord could legally ... crenellated . When wood was replaced by stone wall it was battlemented and provided with an allure from a ...
... crenellate ' means to ' fortify ' . A royal licence ( q.v. ) to crenellate was required before a lord could legally ... crenellated . When wood was replaced by stone wall it was battlemented and provided with an allure from a ...
Page 67
... crenellated gatehouse ( as did university colleges ) . At Bridlington , Tewkesbury , Whalley ( c . 1348 ) gatehouses are clearly for defence and not mere enclosure and that at Alnwick ( C14 ) is a miniature keep with loops and ...
... crenellated gatehouse ( as did university colleges ) . At Bridlington , Tewkesbury , Whalley ( c . 1348 ) gatehouses are clearly for defence and not mere enclosure and that at Alnwick ( C14 ) is a miniature keep with loops and ...
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... crenellate Leicestershire Liberty their house at Allington in the County of Kent with a wall of stone and lime , and that they and their heirs may hold it , thus fortified and crenellated , in perpetuity without let or hindrance from ...
... crenellate Leicestershire Liberty their house at Allington in the County of Kent with a wall of stone and lime , and that they and their heirs may hold it , thus fortified and crenellated , in perpetuity without let or hindrance from ...
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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