The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 55
... walls and high round towers . These high walls blanketed the keep and minimised its utility , hence its ... stone walls and corner towers . The experiment , however , was never repeated , and the great tower remains to - day an isolated ...
... walls and high round towers . These high walls blanketed the keep and minimised its utility , hence its ... stone walls and corner towers . The experiment , however , was never repeated , and the great tower remains to - day an isolated ...
Page 68
... stone walls , perhaps six to eight feet thick and ten to twenty feet high , with a wall along the top protected by a crenellated parapet , having embrasures or " crenels " every now and again with solid " merlons " between each ...
... stone walls , perhaps six to eight feet thick and ten to twenty feet high , with a wall along the top protected by a crenellated parapet , having embrasures or " crenels " every now and again with solid " merlons " between each ...
Page 98
... stone walls . From earliest Norman days our towns had been fortified with earth and timber defences similar to those of the castles . As with the castles , most of these have been obliterated by the later stone walls , but in some ...
... stone walls . From earliest Norman days our towns had been fortified with earth and timber defences similar to those of the castles . As with the castles , most of these have been obliterated by the later stone walls , but in 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