The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 32
... upper end of the chamber is the finest in any keep in the world ( 29 ) , being a complete little church in itself , having its own clerestory to match those of the adjoin- ing hall and chamber . Unfortunately the main storey of the ...
... upper end of the chamber is the finest in any keep in the world ( 29 ) , being a complete little church in itself , having its own clerestory to match those of the adjoin- ing hall and chamber . Unfortunately the main storey of the ...
Page 32
... upper end by splaying off a corner , and the fireplace - later converted into a staircase - was arranged in the angle where it may still be seen with its " flues . " A small room was con- structed at the corresponding end of the great ...
... upper end by splaying off a corner , and the fireplace - later converted into a staircase - was arranged in the angle where it may still be seen with its " flues . " A small room was con- structed at the corresponding end of the great ...
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... upper end of the hall are matched by two at the upper or opposite end of the chamber . One of these is the chapel , which is a very pretty little room with arcaded walls and the remains of a fine east window . The beautiful main door ...
... upper end of the hall are matched by two at the upper or opposite end of the chamber . One of these is the chapel , which is a very pretty little room with arcaded walls and the remains of a fine east window . The beautiful main door ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
STATELY STRONGHOLDS | 75 |
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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 Chepstow 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 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