The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 38
... surrounded . By about the year 1100 , some of the larger castles in the south of England , such as London and Rochester , were having their defences rebuilt in stone . During the reign of Henry I , several of the provincial residential ...
... surrounded . By about the year 1100 , some of the larger castles in the south of England , such as London and Rochester , were having their defences rebuilt in stone . During the reign of Henry I , several of the provincial residential ...
Page 75
... surrounded . As time went on those that remained went out of use even as chambers for the lord of the castle and became storehouses and prisons . The " donjon " had become " dungeon . ' " " The hall - keeps were quite different from any ...
... surrounded . As time went on those that remained went out of use even as chambers for the lord of the castle and became storehouses and prisons . The " donjon " had become " dungeon . ' " " The hall - keeps were quite different from any ...
Page 108
... surrounded by a ring of six lofty wall - towers , two of these being placed close together with the entrance between them . Round the whole of this centre block were wide lists surrounded by a low list - wall with a small outer ...
... surrounded by a ring of six lofty wall - towers , two of these being placed close together with the entrance between them . Round the whole of this centre block were wide lists surrounded by a low list - wall with a small outer ...
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