The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 94
... stair , breaks in the stairs to different floors , the necessity of crossing floors to continue etc. These precautions produced practical difficulties in domestic living which occupied far more of a castle's existence than the rare ...
... stair , breaks in the stairs to different floors , the necessity of crossing floors to continue etc. These precautions produced practical difficulties in domestic living which occupied far more of a castle's existence than the rare ...
Page 157
... stair : ' ordinary ' stair as opposed to spiral Shot - hole : gun - loop , often decorated or cut in decorative shape such as quatrefoil , sometimes closed by internal shutter Skew - put : English ' put - hole ' ( q.v. ) Transe ...
... stair : ' ordinary ' stair as opposed to spiral Shot - hole : gun - loop , often decorated or cut in decorative shape such as quatrefoil , sometimes closed by internal shutter Skew - put : English ' put - hole ' ( q.v. ) Transe ...
Page 171
... staircase ending in a drawbridge . When this stair was stone it usually was protected by a forebuilding . Interior communication may have involved two staircases ; one privy , the other public ( usually newels and often placed in the ...
... staircase ending in a drawbridge . When this stair was stone it usually was protected by a forebuilding . Interior communication may have involved two staircases ; one privy , the other public ( usually newels and often placed in the ...
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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