The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 28
... domestic buildings were erected prior to the year 1000 ; it can scarcely have had any connection with the popular ... building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose , he conceived ...
... domestic buildings were erected prior to the year 1000 ; it can scarcely have had any connection with the popular ... building into something resem- bling a tower . The timber building being awkwardly long for this purpose , he conceived ...
Page 77
... domestic building , possibly a separate chamber , built up against the late - twelfth - century curtain . This demonstrates approximately the early history of the domestic buildings within a castle . First we have the hall - keep of ...
... domestic building , possibly a separate chamber , built up against the late - twelfth - century curtain . This demonstrates approximately the early history of the domestic buildings within a castle . First we have the hall - keep of ...
Page 83
... domestic accommodation becoming more and more elaborate . Beautiful architectural features appear , such as ... buildings within the later castles have usually been considerably despoiled for the sake of their materials . When a castle has ...
... domestic accommodation becoming more and more elaborate . Beautiful architectural features appear , such as ... buildings within the later castles have usually been considerably despoiled for the sake of their materials . When a castle has ...
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