The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... period . Only the surrounding defences made them castles . The time had not yet come when the house itself was to be made defensible , and eventually house and defences incorporated so as to form the perfect fortress , bearing no ...
... period . Only the surrounding defences made them castles . The time had not yet come when the house itself was to be made defensible , and eventually house and defences incorporated so as to form the perfect fortress , bearing no ...
Page 26
... period , they were actually probably quite simple structures until the twelfth century was drawing to its close . Let us for the time being , therefore , leave the more elaborate type of dwelling - house to consider its growth from ...
... period , they were actually probably quite simple structures until the twelfth century was drawing to its close . Let us for the time being , therefore , leave the more elaborate type of dwelling - house to consider its growth from ...
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... period , as witness the fine example at Saltwood in Kent , erected in 1381 , with a fine pair of round towers more reminiscent of its prototype . A Town walls also were at this time being improved by the rebuilding of their gatehouses ...
... period , as witness the fine example at Saltwood in Kent , erected in 1381 , with a fine pair of round towers more reminiscent of its prototype . A Town walls also were at this time being improved by the rebuilding of their gatehouses ...
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