The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... complete the defences of the place . This plan may be seen at Norham in Northumberland and Barnard in Durham . The same type of plan is met with in the case of some castles built in the angles of Roman - walled towns , such as at ...
... complete the defences of the place . This plan may be seen at Norham in Northumberland and Barnard in Durham . The same type of plan is met with in the case of some castles built in the angles of Roman - walled towns , such as at ...
Page 38
... complete , may have been almost as large as Rochester . The Mandeville keep of Saffron Walden in Essex had a central column instead of a cross - wall and an elaborate forebuilding and entrance stair , and the Bigod keep of Bungay in ...
... complete , may have been almost as large as Rochester . The Mandeville keep of Saffron Walden in Essex had a central column instead of a cross - wall and an elaborate forebuilding and entrance stair , and the Bigod keep of Bungay in ...
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... complete a list as possible of all the castles in this country of which traces could be found either on the ground or in documentary records of various dates . I came to the conclusion that there have been at some time or another on ...
... complete a list as possible of all the castles in this country of which traces could be found either on the ground or in documentary records of various dates . I came to the conclusion that there have been at some time or another on ...
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