The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 54
... fine keep was battered down by Cromwell's artillery in 1644 . The same fate befell the interesting keep at Helmsley in the same county , which was built at the very end of the twelfth century by Robert de Roos . The square keep was in ...
... fine keep was battered down by Cromwell's artillery in 1644 . The same fate befell the interesting keep at Helmsley in the same county , which was built at the very end of the twelfth century by Robert de Roos . The square keep was in ...
Page 84
... fine fourteenth - century hall still remains at Caerphilly in Glamorgan , of which castle , once the finest in England , I shall have more to say later . The rather earlier hall at Ludlow has already been mentioned . Conway Castle has ...
... fine fourteenth - century hall still remains at Caerphilly in Glamorgan , of which castle , once the finest in England , I shall have more to say later . The rather earlier hall at Ludlow has already been mentioned . Conway Castle has ...
Page 99
... fine mound remains ) , Northampton ( now the L.M.S. Goods Yard ) , Oxford , Oakham and Marlborough ( a fine motte remains ) . Lancaster castle comes all by itself , and then are noted the great castles of Windsor , Devizes and ...
... fine mound remains ) , Northampton ( now the L.M.S. Goods Yard ) , Oxford , Oakham and Marlborough ( a fine motte remains ) . Lancaster castle comes all by itself , and then are noted the great castles of Windsor , Devizes and ...
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