The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 53
... remains of the gatehouse also may still be seen to - day . Many of our castles which never had their timber palisades replaced in stone were nevertheless strengthened by the addition of stone gatehouses , and the remains of these little ...
... remains of the gatehouse also may still be seen to - day . Many of our castles which never had their timber palisades replaced in stone were nevertheless strengthened by the addition of stone gatehouses , and the remains of these little ...
Page 76
... remains built up into the curtain of c . 1190 , and shows two fine slender chimney shafts , possibly those of the hall and chamber fireplaces . The pretty little house on the river front at Christchurch Castle in Hampshire also has a ...
... remains built up into the curtain of c . 1190 , and shows two fine slender chimney shafts , possibly those of the hall and chamber fireplaces . The pretty little house on the river front at Christchurch Castle in Hampshire also has a ...
Page 99
... remains ) . The two Midland strongholds of Elmley and Warwick present strange contrasts , the former deserted in favour of its mighty rival , which has stolen its glories away and now forms the home of an Earl whose predecessors once ...
... remains ) . The two Midland strongholds of Elmley and Warwick present strange contrasts , the former deserted in favour of its mighty rival , which has stolen its glories away and now forms the home of an Earl whose predecessors once ...
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