The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 37
... keeps . An interesting early hall - keep is that at Portchester in Hampshire ( 16 ) . As will be explained later , this keep was afterwards raised to turn it into the loftier " tower " type which eventually supplanted the early “ hall ” - ...
... keeps . An interesting early hall - keep is that at Portchester in Hampshire ( 16 ) . As will be explained later , this keep was afterwards raised to turn it into the loftier " tower " type which eventually supplanted the early “ hall ” - ...
Page 38
... keep to live in . Some of the external pilasters are narrow and some broad , and it seems improbable that there were ever turrets except possibly over the staircase angle . The upper part of the keep has been vaulted over in recent ...
... keep to live in . Some of the external pilasters are narrow and some broad , and it seems improbable that there were ever turrets except possibly over the staircase angle . The upper part of the keep has been vaulted over in recent ...
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... keep are splayed off so that it looks like a square keep on the inside of the castle and an octagonal one , like Henry II's experiment at Chilham , on the outside . Unfortunately most of the outer side of this fine keep was battered ...
... keep are splayed off so that it looks like a square keep on the inside of the castle and an octagonal one , like Henry II's experiment at Chilham , on the outside . Unfortunately most of the outer side of this fine keep was battered ...
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