The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 180
... town and to extort heavy contributions from citizens for maintenance of castle and its occupants . At Norwich the whole town was subject to the constable . At Rochester and Salisbury the military and ecclesiastical authorities were ...
... town and to extort heavy contributions from citizens for maintenance of castle and its occupants . At Norwich the whole town was subject to the constable . At Rochester and Salisbury the military and ecclesiastical authorities were ...
Page 182
Frank Bottomley. Town Gates TOWN GATES Provision varied according to whether a town was a thoroughfare on lines of communication or a cul - de - sac . York is an excellent example of the former situation and it has four great gates or ...
Frank Bottomley. Town Gates TOWN GATES Provision varied according to whether a town was a thoroughfare on lines of communication or a cul - de - sac . York is an excellent example of the former situation and it has four great gates or ...
Page 228
... town castle in Middle Ages and town prison from 1518 to C19 . Two - storeyed rectangle with round corner towers , remains of machicolation . Attached to part of C14 town wall of which there are other fragments , including gates ...
... town castle in Middle Ages and town prison from 1518 to C19 . Two - storeyed rectangle with round corner towers , remains of machicolation . Attached to part of C14 town wall of which there are other fragments , including gates ...
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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