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castles: A fortified defensive building or structure. Strictly speaking, a castle was also a home, whereas a fort was purely defensive, but I have used castle for any fortified place. A castle may also have had a dungeon or donjon, a sort of prison for offenders and captured soldiers.

Synonyms: fort, keep, garrison

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Pictures from The Growth of the English House, A Short History of its Architectural Development from 100 to 1800, by J. Alfred Gotch, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., London, N.T. Batsford, 1909.

Any photographs here I believe to be out of copyright, since Alfred Gotch died in 1942, more than 50 years ago, and copyright expired before 1995, and Alfred Gotch was (obviously) not alive in 1996 in order to obtain “revived” copyright.

The text itself might still be copyrighted, but I am not certain; it’s far to complicated for me to work out. So I am only posting extracts for now.

I also do not know the copyright status of diagrams, plans or maps.

I have marked all the images as on-comemrcial use only, but my understanding is that you can use the photographs in any (legal) way you wish, and that they are no longer subject to copyright.

25. Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

The Growth of the English House (1909)

“The most complete and most interesting house of this period [the fourteenth century] is the well-known Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. It consists of two courts (Fig. 24), the hall being placed in the win [...]

Keywords: castles, manors, courtyards, windows, entrances, arches, towers

Places shown: Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

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Warkworth Castle, Desktop Background Version

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Version of Warwkworth Castle cropped, resized and hand-coloured by Liam Quin to make a computer background for your desktop (a wallpaper image). I thought this looked like a nice imposing mediaeval ca [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

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Warkworth Castle, Northumberland: Plan of the Keep

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1. Vestibule (leading from entrance in basement) 2. Hall. 3. Chapel. 4. Great Chamber. 5. Kitchens. 6. Pantry and buttery. “[...] It has cellars and a great hall, with buttery and kitchens at one end, [...]

Keywords: castles, plans

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

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45. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

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The keep (cir. 1435 – 40) “Another interesting mixture of the ancient and the modern is to be seen at Warkworth Castle in Northumberland. This was a very old foundation retaining much early work in it [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

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19. Stokesay Castle, Shropshire (cir. 1240-90).

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Ground Plan.

There are lots of other pictures of Stokesay Castle here; try a search for Shropshire.

Keywords: plans, maps, castles

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

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2. Castle Hedingham, Essex

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The Keep (cir. 1130). The head of the entrance door is visible on the left: the opening on the right is modern [written almost 100 years ago] Castle Hedingham today is open to the public three days a [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

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3. Castle Hedingham, Essex

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Plans of the Keep.

1. Ground Floor, or Basement.

2. First, or Entrance Floor.

3. The Great Hall.

4. Upper part of Hall, with Gallery.

5. Room over Hall.

Keywords: castles, plans, maps, architecture

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

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7. Peak Castle, Derbyshire

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Plan of the Keep Peak Castle is more commonly known as Peveril Castle. See also Fig. 8. “Above the upper chamber was the roof, originally of steep pitch (see section, Fig. 9). but which may have been [...]

Keywords: castles, plans

Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

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5. Castle Hedingham, Essex

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Section of the Keep.

Keywords: diagrams, castles, architecture

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

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18. Bodiam Castle, Sussex (1386)

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Showing the Moat.

Now owned by the National Trust, Bodiam Castle dates from 1385, and is in all the books on castles because of its surviving moat.

Keywords: castles, ruins, moats, towers, water, architecture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Bodiam; Robertsbridge; Sussex; England

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8. The Peak Castle, Derbysire (1176)

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“The keep itself, which was built in 1176, is very similar in arrangement to the peel-towers of the Scottish border and to the towers which elsewhere formed the nucleus of many fortified houses. It pr [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, architecture

Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

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6. Castle Hedingham, Essex.

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A Fireplace.

Showing the short flue leading to a vertical vent in the face of the wall.

Keywords: diagrams, fireplaces, castles, architecture

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

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