The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... Rochester ( 26 ) . This fine structure , well over a hundred feet in height , imitates the luxurious layout of its neighbour of London in having a separate entrance storey on the first floor beneath the main floor . The span of the ...
... Rochester ( 26 ) . This fine structure , well over a hundred feet in height , imitates the luxurious layout of its neighbour of London in having a separate entrance storey on the first floor beneath the main floor . The span of the ...
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... Rochester , but is much more beautifully finished . It is much smaller than the Kentish example , and instead of the arcaded cross - wall , a single arch spans the chief rooms . The win- dows of the hall tri- forium and of the chamber ...
... Rochester , but is much more beautifully finished . It is much smaller than the Kentish example , and instead of the arcaded cross - wall , a single arch spans the chief rooms . The win- dows of the hall tri- forium and of the chamber ...
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... Rochester . The Mandeville keep of Saffron Walden in Essex had a central column instead of a cross - wall and an elaborate forebuilding and entrance stair , and the Bigod keep of Bungay in Suffolk had an exceptionally large forebuilding ...
... Rochester . The Mandeville keep of Saffron Walden in Essex had a central column instead of a cross - wall and an elaborate forebuilding and entrance stair , and the Bigod keep of Bungay in Suffolk had an exceptionally large forebuilding ...
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