Author: Arthur Wilfrid BaynhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ash Priors (England : Parish)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Memorials of Ash Priors
Author: Arthur Wilfrid BaynhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ash Priors (England : Parish)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset
Author: Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibrarySearch for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630
Author: Burton W. SpearPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset
Author: Hugh NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: Volume III - Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments the Later Castles from 1217 to the present
Author: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in WalesPublisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales
ISBN: 1871184223
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Forty-three castles and fortified sites here described were founded or given their most significant fabric after 1217. They include tower-houses, strong houses, possible castles, and twenty masonry castles ranging from the great Clare works at Caerphilly and Morlais to the small modestly fortified sites at Barry and Weobley, and the exceptional fortified priory at Ewenny. The density and variety of the medieval fortifications in Glamorgan are unrivalled, and their study is enriched by an exceptional range of works on the history and records of a historic county formed by merging the lordships of Glamorgan and Gower. Part la described the early castles and traced their role in the Norman conquest and settlement of the fertile southern lowlands down to 1217, when the Clares inherited Glamorgan. In that year the Welsh had expelled the English from Gower and remained unconquered in the Glamorgan uplands. Gower was soon lost again, and under two redoubtable Clare lords the Glamorgan uplands were appropriated in the mid-13th century and secured in a notable programme of castle works. The castle-building of Earl Richard de Clare (1243-62) and his son, Gilbert, the 'Red Earl' (1263-95), as they achieved this 'second conquest of Glamorgan', foreshadowed the later campaigns of Edward I against Gwynedd. At Caerphilly, above all, Earl Gilbert's castle deserves comparison with the great Edwardian works; it introduced defensive features later to be adopted by King Edward's Savoyard master masons. Gower sites considered include the impressive masonry castles at Oystermouth and Penrice. A notable ornately arcaded domestic range at Swansea is the only surviving vestige of the chief castle of Gower, which is tentatively described from a variety of records. AH the illustrated descriptions incorporate detailed historical accounts. The introductory survey outlines the later descent of Glamorgan and Gower to the end of the 15th century, and along with the sectional preambles it provides general discussion of the sites.