Kidwelly Castle, CarmarthenshireH.M. Stationery Office, 1935 - 16 pages |
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14th Century angle bank Bishop CARDIFF Chapel circular stair concentric castle courtyard curtain enclosing Domestic Buildings Earl of Lancaster earlier hall east curtain embrasures entrance erection fifteenth century included fireplace with quoins flanking towers fourteenth century further storey gatehall gatehouse grants of murage ground floor Hawise inner curtain inner ward KIDWELLY CASTLE kitchen Lancastrian possessions large fireplace later lighted by narrow mantlet masonry curtain Matilda Maurice de Londres moat surrounding MONUMENTS OF WALES narrow room Norman settlements north-eastern tower northern Ogmore original stockade outer curtain outer defences outer ward passage Patrick Payn de Chaworth period portcullis principal chambers rampart recent excavations rectangular replaced Rhys river semicircular towers shallow foundations Sir Cyril Fox smaller rooms solar south curtain south wall south-east tower south-west stage stairs leading steep scarp storey was reached Sutton stone thirteenth-century character traced trefoiled lancet windows Tudor turret twelfth century vaulted wall walk Welsh rising west side