The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... manors . The principal dwelling house of the lord was called the manor - house ( in Scotland , the ' capital messuage ' ) . MANOR - HOUSES , FORTIFIED Manors were always given some defence for privacy and protection against marauders ...
... manors . The principal dwelling house of the lord was called the manor - house ( in Scotland , the ' capital messuage ' ) . MANOR - HOUSES , FORTIFIED Manors were always given some defence for privacy and protection against marauders ...
Page 219
... house and courtroom of Archbishop of York ( now library ) . Manor Office , associated prison built from cannibalised ... fortified house par excellence . ' Fortification mainly in impressive gatehouse with portcullis and machicolations ...
... house and courtroom of Archbishop of York ( now library ) . Manor Office , associated prison built from cannibalised ... fortified house par excellence . ' Fortification mainly in impressive gatehouse with portcullis and machicolations ...
Page 230
... fortified manor - house . ( 47 ) . SOUTHWICK , Northamptonshire 0192 C14 etc. CH Small tower - house with Elizabethan and C18 additions . May have been fortified manor - house but never a castle . ( 129 ) . SOWERBY , Cumberland 3638 C12 ...
... fortified manor - house . ( 47 ) . SOUTHWICK , Northamptonshire 0192 C14 etc. CH Small tower - house with Elizabethan and C18 additions . May have been fortified manor - house but never a castle . ( 129 ) . SOWERBY , Cumberland 3638 C12 ...
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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