The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... crenellated . When wood was replaced by stone wall it was Crenels battlemented and provided with an allure from a comparatively early date . The form of crenellation is basically unchanged during C13 to C14 but its efficacy is improved ...
... crenellated . When wood was replaced by stone wall it was Crenels battlemented and provided with an allure from a comparatively early date . The form of crenellation is basically unchanged during C13 to C14 but its efficacy is improved ...
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... 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 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