The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... Edwardian castles , therefore , the hedgehog was replaced by a low stone wall , properly crenellated and turreted . This wall was then called the " list wall " or " mantlet wall " ( a mantlet was a large wooden shield carried by storm ...
... Edwardian castles , therefore , the hedgehog was replaced by a low stone wall , properly crenellated and turreted . This wall was then called the " list wall " or " mantlet wall " ( a mantlet was a large wooden shield carried by storm ...
Page 86
... Edwardian fortresses built on the Welsh Marches by Edward I at the end of the thirteenth century , that of Queenborough in Sheppey , begun in 1361 . The four - lobed keep of York seems to have set the fashion for what one might call ...
... Edwardian fortresses built on the Welsh Marches by Edward I at the end of the thirteenth century , that of Queenborough in Sheppey , begun in 1361 . The four - lobed keep of York seems to have set the fashion for what one might call ...
Page 89
... Edwardian gatehouses , with their two sturdy external towers and their two slender internal turrets , are perhaps the chief feature of the period of great castles in this country . Originating at Caerphilly and Llanstephan in 1267 ...
... Edwardian gatehouses , with their two sturdy external towers and their two slender internal turrets , are perhaps the chief feature of the period of great castles in this country . Originating at Caerphilly and Llanstephan in 1267 ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 5 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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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