The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 11
... give to the mediaeval fortified houses in this country . Some of the great hill - forts of prehistoric days are to - day called " castles " but this is really incorrect : the castle is essentially a private and not a communal fortress ...
... give to the mediaeval fortified houses in this country . Some of the great hill - forts of prehistoric days are to - day called " castles " but this is really incorrect : the castle is essentially a private and not a communal fortress ...
Page 27
... give to them the name of " garderobes . " Besides being incorrect this designation is most misleading , as the later Norman wardrobe was a most important room , in which was kept not only the clothes of the lord and his lady , but also ...
... give to them the name of " garderobes . " Besides being incorrect this designation is most misleading , as the later Norman wardrobe was a most important room , in which was kept not only the clothes of the lord and his lady , but also ...
Page 103
... give a better view ) . The wall - towers , however , remained to the bitter end to give the full flavour of Feudalism to the castle . So , too , does the great gatehouse , although this suffers various necessary modifications . At ...
... give a better view ) . The wall - towers , however , remained to the bitter end to give the full flavour of Feudalism to the castle . So , too , does the great gatehouse , although this suffers various necessary modifications . At ...
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