The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 71
Hugh Braun. towers plentifully disposed around their high walls , serving both as buttresses and as wall - towers for the protection of the curtains . It will be remembered that the military architects of this country had already been ...
Hugh Braun. towers plentifully disposed around their high walls , serving both as buttresses and as wall - towers for the protection of the curtains . It will be remembered that the military architects of this country had already been ...
Page 72
... wall - towers ) , but , generally speaking , the standard type of castle wall of the thirteenth century took the form of lofty curtains with semicircular wall - towers pro- jecting , as at Pevensey ( 63 ) . The wall - tower in its ...
... wall - towers ) , but , generally speaking , the standard type of castle wall of the thirteenth century took the form of lofty curtains with semicircular wall - towers pro- jecting , as at Pevensey ( 63 ) . The wall - tower in its ...
Page 73
... walls and early curtains had , of course , only their wall- walks to give a stance for defenders , and the earliest towers , having no floors , could similarly only be defended from their summits . Not all the early wall - towers ...
... walls and early curtains had , of course , only their wall- walks to give a stance for defenders , and the earliest towers , having no floors , could similarly only be defended from their summits . Not all the early wall - towers ...
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