The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 30
... beautiful architectural style . From their Scandinavian ancestors they had inherited the fine timber technique - a love of soaring pillared halls with slender shafts lending such grace to the interiors as had never before been known in ...
... beautiful architectural style . From their Scandinavian ancestors they had inherited the fine timber technique - a love of soaring pillared halls with slender shafts lending such grace to the interiors as had never before been known in ...
Page 32
... beautiful Norman doorways in England , and its fore- building still remains , with a fine vaulted basement . The outer stair has gone to make way for buildings connected with the museum , the ground floor of which cuts the basement of ...
... beautiful Norman doorways in England , and its fore- building still remains , with a fine vaulted basement . The outer stair has gone to make way for buildings connected with the museum , the ground floor of which cuts the basement of ...
Page 36
... beautiful main door- way of the keep was turned into a fireplace in Tudor days . From the forebuilding in which this is situated an exceptionally beauti- ful staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase ...
... beautiful main door- way of the keep was turned into a fireplace in Tudor days . From the forebuilding in which this is situated an exceptionally beauti- ful staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase ...
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