The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 109
... roof above the central hearth of a hall , designed to extract smoke . Its sides were covered in sloping slats to ... roofs , plastering and painting of external walls , clearing of drains , emptying of cesspits , deepening or adding ...
... roof above the central hearth of a hall , designed to extract smoke . Its sides were covered in sloping slats to ... roofs , plastering and painting of external walls , clearing of drains , emptying of cesspits , deepening or adding ...
Page 138
... roof , either single or double ( like an inverted V ) . A building with such a roof ( e.g. those in bailey with roof sloping up to curtain ) was called a pentise or penthouse . The word is also applied to the covered passage , built of ...
... roof , either single or double ( like an inverted V ) . A building with such a roof ( e.g. those in bailey with roof sloping up to curtain ) was called a pentise or penthouse . The word is also applied to the covered passage , built of ...
Page 152
... Roofs of rectangular plan are usually single or double gables while circular ones usually develop into a cone or dome - shape . Flat roofs were exceptional and stone vaults on uppermost storey are rare . Roof - beams were located in a ...
... Roofs of rectangular plan are usually single or double gables while circular ones usually develop into a cone or dome - shape . Flat roofs were exceptional and stone vaults on uppermost storey are rare . Roof - beams were located in a ...
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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