The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 25
... you are at liberty to judge for yourself what the Bayeux artist was trying to portray . Let us now consider the interior arrangements of the E Norman castle hall . The first timber houses of the GREAT STONE TOWERS 25.
... you are at liberty to judge for yourself what the Bayeux artist was trying to portray . Let us now consider the interior arrangements of the E Norman castle hall . The first timber houses of the GREAT STONE TOWERS 25.
Page 47
... consider how the experiments towards the round type of tower were progress- ing . The round keep had been tried out at least once before , apparently in Stephen's reign , in just that part of England where one would expect to find round ...
... consider how the experiments towards the round type of tower were progress- ing . The round keep had been tried out at least once before , apparently in Stephen's reign , in just that part of England where one would expect to find round ...
Page 86
... consider what form such new castles as were built at this period appeared to take . Firstly , the necessity for considering the sweep of timber palisades having passed away , we find the circular plan being abandoned with it . One ...
... consider what form such new castles as were built at this period appeared to take . Firstly , the necessity for considering the sweep of timber palisades having passed away , we find the circular plan being abandoned with it . One ...
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