The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 18
... become complete " outer wards " and would contain the horses and other beasts belonging to the castellan , who would be only too glad to get them out of the confined space within his main enclosure . Having discovered the value of the ...
... become complete " outer wards " and would contain the horses and other beasts belonging to the castellan , who would be only too glad to get them out of the confined space within his main enclosure . Having discovered the value of the ...
Page 79
... become the most popular arrangement . By the middle of the twelfth century , the egregious habits of the Norman feudal aristocrat had reached the stage where his private apartments had become isolated to form a tower- keep with its own ...
... become the most popular arrangement . By the middle of the twelfth century , the egregious habits of the Norman feudal aristocrat had reached the stage where his private apartments had become isolated to form a tower- keep with its own ...
Page 80
... become common in smaller chambers . The great chamber would later become the nucleus of a series of rooms forming the private apartments of the cas- tellan , but it does not come within the scope of this book to discuss the development ...
... become common in smaller chambers . The great chamber would later become the nucleus of a series of rooms forming the private apartments of the cas- tellan , but it does not come within the scope of this book to discuss the development ...
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