The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 37
... early thirteenth century , aping the earlier examples even so far as to have the narrow strip buttresses of the most primitive keeps . An interesting early hall - keep is that at Portchester in Hampshire ( 16 ) . As will be explained ...
... early thirteenth century , aping the earlier examples even so far as to have the narrow strip buttresses of the most primitive keeps . An interesting early hall - keep is that at Portchester in Hampshire ( 16 ) . As will be explained ...
Page 76
... early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early dwelling - house was , of course , the centre of the floor . In the case of a hall raised over a basement having a row of stone columns down its centre , the hearth may ...
... early stone halls . The usual position for the fire in an early dwelling - house was , of course , the centre of the floor . In the case of a hall raised over a basement having a row of stone columns down its centre , the hearth may ...
Page 77
... early hall built above a cliff is that at Durham . This hall is also of early date , being lit in its upper part by windows placed in an exceptionally fine arcade with coupled columns , rather like the triforium of the hall of an early ...
... early hall built above a cliff is that at Durham . This hall is also of early date , being lit in its upper part by windows placed in an exceptionally fine arcade with coupled columns , rather like the triforium of the hall of an early ...
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