The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... appear as vertical boarding and the well - pitched roofs were probably covered with shingles . The ends of the ... appears disproportionately lofty . The other is that it was probably designed by a Byzantine artist who may have had ...
... appear as vertical boarding and the well - pitched roofs were probably covered with shingles . The ends of the ... appears disproportionately lofty . The other is that it was probably designed by a Byzantine artist who may have had ...
Page 37
... appears to have a solid basement , as have all the bastions , that farthest from the entrance having had the ... appear quite inexplicable . There is an early hall attached to it , as at Wolvesey . It is a curious fact that at least four ...
... appears to have a solid basement , as have all the bastions , that farthest from the entrance having had the ... appear quite inexplicable . There is an early hall attached to it , as at Wolvesey . It is a curious fact that at least four ...
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... appear that the keep may have been built to provide a private residence for the castellan . one Most of the Nor- man gate - towers appear to belong to the second half of the twelfth century , at the time when " chamber " keeps were ...
... appear that the keep may have been built to provide a private residence for the castellan . one Most of the Nor- man gate - towers appear to belong to the second half of the twelfth century , at the time when " chamber " keeps were ...
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