The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 40
... military responsibilities . In any case the keep at Newcastle has unusually thick walls with fine large chambers provided in them , quite different from the mean little wall - chambers of the earlier keeps . The only gesture made to ...
... military responsibilities . In any case the keep at Newcastle has unusually thick walls with fine large chambers provided in them , quite different from the mean little wall - chambers of the earlier keeps . The only gesture made to ...
Page 83
... military side of castle architecture was beginning to be neglected , we find the domestic accommodation becoming more and more elaborate . Beautiful architectural features appear , such as elaborate porches to the halls . The chief of ...
... military side of castle architecture was beginning to be neglected , we find the domestic accommodation becoming more and more elaborate . Beautiful architectural features appear , such as elaborate porches to the halls . The chief of ...
Page 111
... military architects of the Middle Ages ( 116 ) . Fire artillery had first appeared in this country about 1325 , and by the end of the fourteenth century it must have become obvious to all military experts that it had come to stay . The ...
... military architects of the Middle Ages ( 116 ) . Fire artillery had first appeared in this country about 1325 , and by the end of the fourteenth century it must have become obvious to all military experts that it had come to stay . The ...
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