The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war ...
... Middle Ages and their military transformation under the effect of artillery . The English castle is to - day one of three things : a ruin , a restoration , or a fragment on to which has been grafted a later dwellinghouse unsuited to war ...
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... Middle Ages , the improvement of the defences of the bailey and the breaking up of the old " hall complex " made it no longer absolutely necessary to retain this . The main disadvantage of the base- ment was that the difficulty of ...
... Middle Ages , the improvement of the defences of the bailey and the breaking up of the old " hall complex " made it no longer absolutely necessary to retain this . The main disadvantage of the base- ment was that the difficulty of ...
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... middle of the next century , ending up with such structures as Hurstmonceux ( 117 ) , with its thin brick walls , slender turrets and chimney - stacks , and crossed arrow - slits looking 92 BODIAM , SUSSEX : the Entrance Front 93 ...
... middle of the next century , ending up with such structures as Hurstmonceux ( 117 ) , with its thin brick walls , slender turrets and chimney - stacks , and crossed arrow - slits looking 92 BODIAM , SUSSEX : the Entrance Front 93 ...
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