The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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... ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less aesthetic and more practical in their tastes , prefer to see walls and towers rising stark and grim , as fortresses should be , proud in their ruined ...
... ruins , their broken walls softened with dark veils of ivy ; while others , less aesthetic and more practical in their tastes , prefer to see walls and towers rising stark and grim , as fortresses should be , proud in their ruined ...
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... ruins of this once beautiful tower - vindictively destroyed by the Parlia- mentarians after their repulse by its castellaine , Lady Bankes →→→ form one of the grandest , if most pathetic castle spectacles in England . The keep had ...
... ruins of this once beautiful tower - vindictively destroyed by the Parlia- mentarians after their repulse by its castellaine , Lady Bankes →→→ form one of the grandest , if most pathetic castle spectacles in England . The keep had ...
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... ruins of the domestic buildings within our castles , as at Bodiam ( 74 ) , but few noteworthy examples are to be seen . On the other hand , some castellans built really large chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them ...
... ruins of the domestic buildings within our castles , as at Bodiam ( 74 ) , but few noteworthy examples are to be seen . On the other hand , some castellans built really large chapels within their castles and sometimes founded in them ...
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