The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 38
... cross - wall to help carry the roof ( about thirty feet seems to have been the maximum span of à floor - beam in ... cross - wall . As the towers were raised in height , so their walls became thicker , which allowed plenty of room for ...
... cross - wall to help carry the roof ( about thirty feet seems to have been the maximum span of à floor - beam in ... cross - wall . As the towers were raised in height , so their walls became thicker , which allowed plenty of room for ...
Page 38
... cross - wall , a single arch spans the chief rooms . The win- dows of the hall tri- forium and of the chamber above ... wall where it is joined by the cross - wall , and a special tower with a cesspit in its basement was built out at ...
... cross - wall , a single arch spans the chief rooms . The win- dows of the hall tri- forium and of the chamber above ... wall where it is joined by the cross - wall , and a special tower with a cesspit in its basement was built out at ...
Page 39
... wall was first mined and broken up and the angle of the great tower itself ... cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the ... cross - wall held out for several days before giving in . John would have ...
... wall was first mined and broken up and the angle of the great tower itself ... cross - galleries until the props could be fired and the whole corner of the ... cross - wall held out for several days before giving in . John would have ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 5 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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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