The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 54
... outer angles of the 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 ...
... outer angles of the 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 ...
Page 84
... outer walls of their halls where the strong curtain has proved too much of a task for the stone - robbers . Such is the case at Manorbier in Pembroke , and the very fine hall at Newark - upon - Trent still has its outer wall and one ...
... outer walls of their halls where the strong curtain has proved too much of a task for the stone - robbers . Such is the case at Manorbier in Pembroke , and the very fine hall at Newark - upon - Trent still has its outer wall and one ...
Page 86
... outer edge of the ditch . This defence could easily be breached , the ditch filled in , and the walls approached by the cats and other siege machines . In some of the large Edwardian castles , therefore , the hedgehog was replaced by a ...
... outer edge of the ditch . This defence could easily be breached , the ditch filled in , and the walls approached by the cats and other siege machines . In some of the large Edwardian castles , therefore , the hedgehog was replaced by a ...
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