The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 25
... probably covered with shingles . The ends of the gables may have been ornamented with dragon - heads , relics of the piratical long- ships of the bad old days of the Norman castle - men . The only representations of early castle halls ...
... probably covered with shingles . The ends of the gables may have been ornamented with dragon - heads , relics of the piratical long- ships of the bad old days of the Norman castle - men . The only representations of early castle halls ...
Page 26
... 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 first principles . Throughout ...
... 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 first principles . Throughout ...
Page 78
... Probably many of them were as yet entirely of timber , as appears to have been the case at Hertford Castle . When such halls were rebuilt in stone they probably in many cases retained their original timber pillars . Possibly even some ...
... Probably many of them were as yet entirely of timber , as appears to have been the case at Hertford Castle . When such halls were rebuilt in stone they probably in many cases retained their original timber pillars . Possibly even some ...
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