The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 29
... lower or entrance end of the hall , but in the keeps it often had to be at the other end . It may be taken as a general rule that in most castles the well was situated wherever possible con- veniently near to the kitchen . At the upper ...
... lower or entrance end of the hall , but in the keeps it often had to be at the other end . It may be taken as a general rule that in most castles the well was situated wherever possible con- veniently near to the kitchen . At the upper ...
Page 35
... lower end of the hall the wall was thickened out for the latrines . It is a pity that such a magnificent keep is lost to us . One of the most elaborately planned hall - keeps in the country may be seen at Canterbury . Instead of the ...
... lower end of the hall the wall was thickened out for the latrines . It is a pity that such a magnificent keep is lost to us . One of the most elaborately planned hall - keeps in the country may be seen at Canterbury . Instead of the ...
Page 83
... lower end of the hall was , of course , the entrance , often covered by a porch . During the thirteenth century , and later , an inner porch was usually formed by cutting off the end of the hall by a wooden screen , having in it two ...
... lower end of the hall was , of course , the entrance , often covered by a porch . During the thirteenth century , and later , an inner porch was usually formed by cutting off the end of the hall by a wooden screen , having in it two ...
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