The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... original purposes for which the various parts of the structures were designed , and possibly even to form some idea as to their appearance and that of their occupants in the days which have passed away . Above all , it is hoped that ...
... original purposes for which the various parts of the structures were designed , and possibly even to form some idea as to their appearance and that of their occupants in the days which have passed away . Above all , it is hoped that ...
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... original main floor of the tower as a gallery . The arcaded glories of Norwich remind one of another keep which resembles it to a lesser degree , the rather smaller keep of Corfe in Dorset ( 23 ) . The shattered ruins of this once ...
... original main floor of the tower as a gallery . The arcaded glories of Norwich remind one of another keep which resembles it to a lesser degree , the rather smaller keep of Corfe in Dorset ( 23 ) . The shattered ruins of this once ...
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... original pitched one and dividing up the top floor into two . Guildford in Surrey ( 32 ) , Bridgenorth in Shropshire ( badly wrecked after the Civil War ) and Prudhoe in Northumber- land are examples of such keeps , the first being ...
... original pitched one and dividing up the top floor into two . Guildford in Surrey ( 32 ) , Bridgenorth in Shropshire ( badly wrecked after the Civil War ) and Prudhoe in Northumber- land are examples of such keeps , the first being ...
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