The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 66
... FOREBUILDING An extension to the keep , primarily to protect the great external stair but which also served to provide additional accommodation , sometimes including a prison and / or chapel . The forebuilding was a substantial annexe ...
... FOREBUILDING An extension to the keep , primarily to protect the great external stair but which also served to provide additional accommodation , sometimes including a prison and / or chapel . The forebuilding was a substantial annexe ...
Page 94
... forebuilding ( q.v. ) developed as an entrance protection which also provided extra accommodation . It also tended to produce a communication bottleneck . KEEP , INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS Because of the superimposed accommodation of tower ...
... forebuilding ( q.v. ) developed as an entrance protection which also provided extra accommodation . It also tended to produce a communication bottleneck . KEEP , INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS Because of the superimposed accommodation of tower ...
Page 209
... ( forebuilding vanished ) , bailey ( curtain disappeared ) . ( 30 , 160 , 166 ) . Town Walls ; thoroughly restored North Gate , bastion in Pound St. BRIDGWATER , Somerset 3037 1216 D O Water - gate on W quay survives of C13 castle ...
... ( forebuilding vanished ) , bailey ( curtain disappeared ) . ( 30 , 160 , 166 ) . Town Walls ; thoroughly restored North Gate , bastion in Pound St. BRIDGWATER , Somerset 3037 1216 D O Water - gate on W quay survives of C13 castle ...
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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