The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 78
... early stone halls at Richmond ( probably the first in the country ) , Brough , Chepstow , Ludlow and Durham . Though the latter has been subdivided it still retains its entrance ( " the most beautiful Norman doorway in all England ...
... early stone halls at Richmond ( probably the first in the country ) , Brough , Chepstow , Ludlow and Durham . Though the latter has been subdivided it still retains its entrance ( " the most beautiful Norman doorway in all England ...
Page 213
... early C14 C ? Good example of ' Vicar's pele ' , three storeyed , embattled and machicolated . Yett , looped and vaulted basement , living - rooms with built - in amenities . ( 130 , 146 , 160 , 187 ) . CORBY , Cumberland 4754 C13 or 14 ...
... early C14 C ? Good example of ' Vicar's pele ' , three storeyed , embattled and machicolated . Yett , looped and vaulted basement , living - rooms with built - in amenities . ( 130 , 146 , 160 , 187 ) . CORBY , Cumberland 4754 C13 or 14 ...
Page 232
... early C16 D H Remains of gatehouse are all that survive of Margaret Pole's fortified manor - house . ( 80 ) . WARDOUR , Wiltshire 9226 lc . 1393 B- DE Tower - house of unique near - hexagonal plan with one side turned into rectangular ...
... early C16 D H Remains of gatehouse are all that survive of Margaret Pole's fortified manor - house . ( 80 ) . WARDOUR , Wiltshire 9226 lc . 1393 B- DE Tower - house of unique near - hexagonal plan with one side turned into rectangular ...
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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