The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 29
... chapel . Hall and chamber had well - pitched roofs over them , and the walls of the tower were carried up to protect these from damage by projectiles . The main walls were usually eight or ten feet thick , partly owing to the height of ...
... chapel . Hall and chamber had well - pitched roofs over them , and the walls of the tower were carried up to protect these from damage by projectiles . The main walls were usually eight or ten feet thick , partly owing to the height of ...
Page 38
... chapel , but here could not be , owing to the orientation . On the next floor , however , the " chapel " has been continued right across the " hall " part of the keep and has an apse formed in the keep wall . In early days , how- ever ...
... chapel , but here could not be , owing to the orientation . On the next floor , however , the " chapel " has been continued right across the " hall " part of the keep and has an apse formed in the keep wall . In early days , how- ever ...
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... chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them chantries or even colleges of priests . The great chapel of St. George within Windsor castle is known all over the world as the chapel of the Knights of the Garter . The ruins ...
... chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them chantries or even colleges of priests . The great chapel of St. George within Windsor castle is known all over the world as the chapel of the Knights of the Garter . The ruins ...
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