The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... Dover . Dover Castle is unique in that it shows combined the two features of the tower- keep and the towered curtain walls which ousted the great towers ; in this case , curiously enough , both erected at the same time . The enormous ...
... Dover . Dover Castle is unique in that it shows combined the two features of the tower- keep and the towered curtain walls which ousted the great towers ; in this case , curiously enough , both erected at the same time . The enormous ...
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... Dover arches may be met with again at Maurice's other keep of Newcastle and in the doorway to the great hall at Farnham . We must now pass on from this rather lengthy examination of two very late square keeps and return to consider how ...
... Dover arches may be met with again at Maurice's other keep of Newcastle and in the doorway to the great hall at Farnham . We must now pass on from this rather lengthy examination of two very late square keeps and return to consider how ...
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Hugh Braun. First are four south - eastern castles : Dover , Leeds ( a dream- like castle set in the midst of a lovely lake ) ( 90 ) , Rochester and Hastings . Next come five western fortresses , Exeter , Sherborne and the now vanished ...
Hugh Braun. First are four south - eastern castles : Dover , Leeds ( a dream- like castle set in the midst of a lovely lake ) ( 90 ) , Rochester and Hastings . Next come five western fortresses , Exeter , Sherborne and the now vanished ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 5 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chilham circular clerestory constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortress fourteenth century gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly king later latrines lord main floor masonry MAXSTOKE mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet twelfth century upper usually wall-towers WARWICKSHIRE Yorkshire