The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 29
... staircase . At the opposite end of the hall a doorway led through the " cross wall " into the chamber . In the wall of the tower opposite the entrance were the all - important latrines . Hall and chamber often have fireplaces in their ...
... staircase . At the opposite end of the hall a doorway led through the " cross wall " into the chamber . In the wall of the tower opposite the entrance were the all - important latrines . Hall and chamber often have fireplaces in their ...
Page 36
... staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase to any hall - keep in the country , entirely enclosed by high walls and most elaborately orna- mented on its outer face and round its lower doorway ( 35 ) ...
... staircase descends to the ground level ( 36 ) . This is the finest staircase to any hall - keep in the country , entirely enclosed by high walls and most elaborately orna- mented on its outer face and round its lower doorway ( 35 ) ...
Page 39
... staircase in his keeps , as the old square angles in which they used to be situated had been done away with . He there- fore built a separate turret up the side to take the stair , which at Orford he balanced with two other similar ...
... staircase in his keeps , as the old square angles in which they used to be situated had been done away with . He there- fore built a separate turret up the side to take the stair , which at Orford he balanced with two other similar ...
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