A Guide to Caerphilly Castle and the NeighbourhoodW. Lewis, 1895 - 32 pages |
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afterwards apartments arches Architect assailants attack beacon besieged Brecon Brecon Beacons building built buttress towers Caerphilly Castle called Senghennydd capture Cardiff Cardiff Castle Castel Coch Cennydd chapel Clark CONCENTRIC CASTLES curtain wall destroyed doorway double drawbridge Earl of Gloucester eastern gatehouse eastern side Entering the Castle entrance erected evidently explosion Fagans feet high feet wide fourteenth century front GALLERY Gilbert de Clare Glamorganshire grand gunpowder hall hornwork Hugh de Spencer inner moat inner ward Ivor Bach KITCHEN LEANING TOWER left the Castle line of defence lofty Lord of Glamorgan marriage masonry middle ward monastery Monmouthshire mouldings Norman northern curtain old manor house opening outer moat period platform portcullis portion POSTERN Prince Llewelyn probably rampart rectangle redoubt Reginald de Braose Rose of Senghennydd round ruins Senghennydd Castle South Wales southern staircase storey structure thrown timber trace visitor Wales water gate whole yards
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Page 5 - Then rode Geraint into the castle court, His charger trampling many a prickly star Of sprouted thistle on the broken stones. He looked and saw that all was ruinous. Here stood a shattered archway plumed with fern; And here had fallen a great part of a tower, Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers...
Page 20 - Neville families, but subsequently lapsing to the Crown was given by Edward VI. to William, Earl of Pembroke, in whose family it remained until it passed by marriage to the Herberts of StPagans, and thence, by marriage also, to Lord Bute's grandfather.
Page 22 - With respect to the redoubt, it is perfectly evident from its appearance that it was thrown up not only when gunpowder was in general u,se but when the science of fortification was properly understood.
Page 20 - ... then spattered the whole of that [the east] end of the building, smashing large pieces out of the carved masonry and breaking some of the beautiful old windows, also bringing down two large gargoyles. The whole of this face of the building is a sorry sight.
Page 21 - The embrasures are contained within parallel sides and bear a small proportion to the solid part between them.