The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... four at York . ( The two octagonal lobes of the so- called keep at Stokesay castle in Shropshire ( 72 ) make this queer little tower look as if it may belong to the same period , although its large external windows suggest that it is ...
... four at York . ( The two octagonal lobes of the so- called keep at Stokesay castle in Shropshire ( 72 ) make this queer little tower look as if it may belong to the same period , although its large external windows suggest that it is ...
Page 99
... four Salopian castles of Ludlow , Bridgenorth , Redcastle and Hodnet , the first to - day totally eclipses in magnificence its three neighbours . Three Midland castles follow : Tutbury , of which a good deal remains , Donington ...
... four Salopian castles of Ludlow , Bridgenorth , Redcastle and Hodnet , the first to - day totally eclipses in magnificence its three neighbours . Three Midland castles follow : Tutbury , of which a good deal remains , Donington ...
Page 107
... four sturdy square angle - towers instead of the array of seven or eight so beloved of the southern castle ... Four years earlier the great stronghold of the Bastille had been built in Paris , and from the pictures remaining of this ...
... four sturdy square angle - towers instead of the array of seven or eight so beloved of the southern castle ... Four years earlier the great stronghold of the Bastille had been built in Paris , and from the pictures remaining of this ...
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