The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Frank Bottomley. Crossbow CRENEL see also Battlements , Parapet . The embrasure in a parapet between merlons ( q.v. ) ... parapets on the summit of Caesar's Tower , Warwick ( late C14 ) - a masterpiece of contemporary military architecture ...
Frank Bottomley. Crossbow CRENEL see also Battlements , Parapet . The embrasure in a parapet between merlons ( q.v. ) ... parapets on the summit of Caesar's Tower , Warwick ( late C14 ) - a masterpiece of contemporary military architecture ...
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... parapet on arch in advance of front face of gatehouse from one flanking tower to other and to leave space between parapet and main wall open to command field immediately in front of portcullis . Finest architectural designs : Caernarvon ...
... parapet on arch in advance of front face of gatehouse from one flanking tower to other and to leave space between parapet and main wall open to command field immediately in front of portcullis . Finest architectural designs : Caernarvon ...
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... PARAPET The battlemented wall protecting a rampart or roof - walk towards the field . It is divided into merlons and crenels ( embrasures ) ( q.v. ) . At first the embrasures were placed at long intervals but there was an increasing ...
... PARAPET The battlemented wall protecting a rampart or roof - walk towards the field . It is divided into merlons and crenels ( embrasures ) ( q.v. ) . At first the embrasures were placed at long intervals but there was an increasing ...
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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