The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... fourteenth - century additions to Kidwelly , there- fore , the great gatehouse ( 86 ) , placed close to the angle , has absorbed the angle tower , which appears as a bulge on its external flank . The very fine gatehouse of the little ...
... fourteenth - century additions to Kidwelly , there- fore , the great gatehouse ( 86 ) , placed close to the angle , has absorbed the angle tower , which appears as a bulge on its external flank . The very fine gatehouse of the little ...
Page 100
... fourteenth - century lords and ladies but that they must live in castles . The fact that there was very little need for such was a small consideration ; those who had not already a ( more or less obsolete ) castle had to see about ...
... fourteenth - century lords and ladies but that they must live in castles . The fact that there was very little need for such was a small consideration ; those who had not already a ( more or less obsolete ) castle had to see about ...
Page 107
... fourteenth century vary in site and planning from those of the South , being often on high rocky sites and with no water defence , mining being out of the question . Their plan is usually smaller and their walls loftier , with just four ...
... fourteenth century vary in site and planning from those of the South , being often on high rocky sites and with no water defence , mining being out of the question . Their plan is usually smaller and their walls loftier , with just four ...
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