The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... designed woodwork of Queen Eleanor's tomb , planned siege engines , inspected royal forests and designed a pile - driver . William Hurley ( in the time of Edward III ) built , inter alia , the lantern at Ely , the hall at Caerphilly and ...
... designed woodwork of Queen Eleanor's tomb , planned siege engines , inspected royal forests and designed a pile - driver . William Hurley ( in the time of Edward III ) built , inter alia , the lantern at Ely , the hall at Caerphilly and ...
Page 109
... designed to extract smoke . Its sides were covered in sloping slats to keep out the rain and provide an up - draught . It is said that , in some cases , these slats could be opened and closed by a cord like Venetian blinds . From C14 ...
... designed to extract smoke . Its sides were covered in sloping slats to keep out the rain and provide an up - draught . It is said that , in some cases , these slats could be opened and closed by a cord like Venetian blinds . From C14 ...
Page 143
... designed position . The same seems to have been true of military engines and defences . In 1221 we hear of a bretteche being moved from Nafferton to Newcastle , Northd . and in 1216 of towers being translated from Knepp , Sussex , to ...
... designed position . The same seems to have been true of military engines and defences . In 1221 we hear of a bretteche being moved from Nafferton to Newcastle , Northd . and in 1216 of towers being translated from Knepp , Sussex , to ...
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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