The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... architecture in this country is that of one long and never - ending struggle against the forces of destruction . The cathedral is perhaps the apotheosis of Architecture — the castle is Architecture fighting for its life ! Despite the ...
... architecture in this country is that of one long and never - ending struggle against the forces of destruction . The cathedral is perhaps the apotheosis of Architecture — the castle is Architecture fighting for its life ! Despite the ...
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... Architecture . One must pause , however , to remember that the early Normans introduced into this country with their stern castles what was rapidly becoming a very beautiful architectural style . From their Scandinavian ancestors they ...
... Architecture . One must pause , however , to remember that the early Normans introduced into this country with their stern castles what was rapidly becoming a very beautiful architectural style . From their Scandinavian ancestors they ...
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... architecture and church architecture do not seem to have moved together in this country . While the actual plan of the Norman keeps seem to have been kept up to date , the architectural treatment - the only thing one has to go on when ...
... architecture and church architecture do not seem to have moved together in this country . While the actual plan of the Norman keeps seem to have been kept up to date , the architectural treatment - the only thing one has to go on when ...
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