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Hace 3 días · YORK CASTLE (Pls. 1–16, 62, Figs. pp. 62, 63) consists of a Norman motte and bailey with a 13th-century quadrilobate stone keep (Clifford's Tower) on the motte and remains of the mediaeval curtain wall and towers round part of the bailey, which now contains the Debtors' Prison of 1701–5, the Assize Courts of 1773–7, and the ...
Hace 5 días · The castle was originally built in the 11th century as a Norman motte-and-bailey fortress, but was later rebuilt and expanded in the 19th century by the architect James Wyatt for the 5th Duke of Rutland.
Hace 5 días · The motte and bailey were no doubt formed in the late 11th or the 12th century but it has been suggested that the outer enclosure is of earlier date; there is no particular evidence of this but the question cannot be settled without excavation.
Hace 3 días · A motte and bailey castle stood on the side of a valley 0.75 km. west of Ermin Street but, further west, a much larger castle had been built overlooking the valley by the mid 12th century; masonry of that date is incorporated in several buildings in the village.
Hace 3 días · Warwick Castle. General and Structural History of the Castle. The castle founded in the 11th century was of the motte-and-bailey type. It stands on a sandstone bluff overlooking a bend of the Avon where the river has cut away the rock to form a cliff.
Hace 4 días · The major monument is Fotheringhay Castle (34), the scene of many momentous events in English history; it is now reduced to little more than an earthen motte and bailey. The remains of the late medieval college, attached to the church, are of some interest.
Hace 3 días · The surviving motte of the Norman castle is c. 250 ft. in diameter at its base, 81 ft. in diameter at the top, and 64 ft. high having been heightened in the 13th century when the well chamber was built; the bailey originally covered c. 2½ acres.
