The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... 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 unsuited to war . In its early development it followed the rule of all English things in that it ...
... 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 unsuited to war . In its early development it followed the rule of all English things in that it ...
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... structures as the hall and chapel against the interior faces of its walls . A wall - tower projecting at each angle will completely command the exterior faces of the walls . 74 BODIAM , SUSSEX : the 14th - Century East. 86 THE ENGLISH ...
... structures as the hall and chapel against the interior faces of its walls . A wall - tower projecting at each angle will completely command the exterior faces of the walls . 74 BODIAM , SUSSEX : the 14th - Century East. 86 THE ENGLISH ...
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... castle would care to show himself at a crenel unless the besiegers could be kept well away from the walls . The most notable change of face of the castle - builders of the thirteenth century is , however , shown by ... CASTLE THE ENGLISH.
... castle would care to show himself at a crenel unless the besiegers could be kept well away from the walls . The most notable change of face of the castle - builders of the thirteenth century is , however , shown by ... CASTLE THE ENGLISH.
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