The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... ENGLISH VILLAGES AND HAMLETS By HUMPHREY PAKINGTON THE OLD PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND By JOHN RODGERS THE OLD INNS OF ENGLAND By A. E. RICHARDSON THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE By RALPH DUTTON out of print for the duration of the war THE ENGLISH ...
... ENGLISH VILLAGES AND HAMLETS By HUMPHREY PAKINGTON THE OLD PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND By JOHN RODGERS THE OLD INNS OF ENGLAND By A. E. RICHARDSON THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE By RALPH DUTTON out of print for the duration of the war THE ENGLISH ...
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... English Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse ...
... English Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse ...
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... English as his tenants , and no longer was there any need for him to live in the defensible house of his eleventh - century ancestor . A national language was replacing the French and Latin of nobles and churchmen ; English poets were ...
... English as his tenants , and no longer was there any need for him to live in the defensible house of his eleventh - century ancestor . A national language was replacing the French and Latin of nobles and churchmen ; English poets were ...
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