The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 86
... gatehouse . At Lewes in Sussex the shell - keep was improved , appar- ently about 1300 , by the addition of a pair of fine semi- octagonal wall - towers . About the year 1312 a curious structure was erected on the summit of the motte at ...
... gatehouse . At Lewes in Sussex the shell - keep was improved , appar- ently about 1300 , by the addition of a pair of fine semi- octagonal wall - towers . About the year 1312 a curious structure was erected on the summit of the motte at ...
Page 86
... 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 castle of Leybourne in Kent also shows a bulge of this description , in ...
... 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 castle of Leybourne in Kent also shows a bulge of this description , in ...
Page 103
... gatehouse . With the development of the courtyard plan , however , these rooms became absorbed in the rest of the range of buildings , and only the entrance passage itself remains to be raised into a lofty block in proper gatehouse ...
... gatehouse . With the development of the courtyard plan , however , these rooms became absorbed in the rest of the range of buildings , and only the entrance passage itself remains to be raised into a lofty block in proper gatehouse ...
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