The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... turret or look - out corbelled out at angle of a tower or on the surface of a wall . The word is etymologically connected with brattice , and such turrets , like the machicolated parapet , are the stone counterpart of the brattices and ...
... turret or look - out corbelled out at angle of a tower or on the surface of a wall . The word is etymologically connected with brattice , and such turrets , like the machicolated parapet , are the stone counterpart of the brattices and ...
Page 186
... TURRET A small tower . Sometimes placed on top of a larger one to provide a lookout - point and also to cover the stairhead ( e.g. Warwick ) . Such watch turrets , sometimes called ' garrites ' were characteristic of Edwardian and C14 ...
... TURRET A small tower . Sometimes placed on top of a larger one to provide a lookout - point and also to cover the stairhead ( e.g. Warwick ) . Such watch turrets , sometimes called ' garrites ' were characteristic of Edwardian and C14 ...
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... turrets ( with ' defenders ' ) . ( 52 ) . WOLVESEY , Hampshire 4829 C12 CH Fortress - palace of bishops of Winchester within cathedral precinct . Ruins include remains of curtain , keep , tower ( c . 1135 ) , domestic range including ...
... turrets ( with ' defenders ' ) . ( 52 ) . WOLVESEY , Hampshire 4829 C12 CH Fortress - palace of bishops of Winchester within cathedral precinct . Ruins include remains of curtain , keep , tower ( c . 1135 ) , domestic range including ...
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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