The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 52
... stands the lonely round tower of Dolbardarn , which seems late in date . An English example of a round keep on a motte once existed at Chartley in Staffordshire , but very little remains of this to - day . One of the most interesting ...
... stands the lonely round tower of Dolbardarn , which seems late in date . An English example of a round keep on a motte once existed at Chartley in Staffordshire , but very little remains of this to - day . One of the most interesting ...
Page 77
... stands . It is in very good condition , having a fine doorway , and apparently precedes in date the lofty keep which was raised over the original gate of the castle . Another early hall built above a cliff is that at Durham . This hall ...
... stands . It is in very good condition , having a fine doorway , and apparently precedes in date the lofty keep which was raised over the original gate of the castle . Another early hall built above a cliff is that at Durham . This hall ...
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Hugh Braun. where the thirteenth - century hall stands in the ditch which once separated the two wards of the castle ( the upper of which may once have been a motte ) . At Kenilworth ( 107 ) the beautiful fifteenth - century hall stands ...
Hugh Braun. where the thirteenth - century hall stands in the ditch which once separated the two wards of the castle ( the upper of which may once have been a motte ) . At Kenilworth ( 107 ) the beautiful fifteenth - century hall stands ...
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