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Building of the castle was begun in 1138 by the Norman lord William d'Albini for his new wife, the widow of Henry I. In the 14th century it became the luxurious residence of Queen Isabella, widow (and alleged murderess) of Edward II.
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Arundel Castle in West Sussex England. This Norman castle dates back to 1067 and is the seat of the Duke of Norfolk.
Prague castle... well, that's one out of the two castles in Prague, but this one is called the "Prague castle"...
Deverry castle is my newest project.
The first version was build end 2013, begin 2014. After one show (Brick Mania Wetteren 2014) i start redesigning it. Now it is finish (for the moment), and it is shown on Brick Mania Antwerp 2014 for the first time. I reworked the backside of the castle so you can see inside some rooms (kitchen, weapon room, main hall etc). It is also become a little bit bigger than the first version.
The first idea was to build a castle like Harlech Castle in Wales. Afterwards i added a great tower inspired by the one of Rochester. Some towers are inspired by other castles in Belgium, Luxemburg and France. Now the castle is a mixture of element of different castles but it still look likes a real strong castle. The name of the project is given by the series of Celtic fantasy novels written by Katharine Kerr, The Deverry Cycle.
Nowadays i bring my two displays (Deverry castle and “de Kempen”) together in one display (especially for Brick Mania Antwerpen 2014 and Brick 2014 in London). Later i will rebuild the kempen display in a more medieval landscape. But that is for the winter of 2014-2015.
I hope you enjoy the pictures or the real display on one of the shows!
Castle Street, Dundee, early one summer's morning. Castle Street was named after the medieval castle that was present on the site of the nearby St Paul's Cathedral. Crypts from the castle were found during building work. In the background is the River Tay and beyond that, Fife.
Kynžvart Castle is surrounded by a large historical park. In the first half of the 19th century the castle was rebuilt by the Austrian Chancellor, Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859). It was the location for many discussions and negotiations of European diplomacy.
the castle hill, one of the best views of langholm, and the surrounding area can be seen from the top of this hill. with the glebe field, becks, on the left, and the gaskells wood in foreground as seen from warbla ( warblaw hill ) langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland. view large
Castle Gayer is a substantial Victorian property, thought to have been built in the early 1870s. This was an exciting period when architects broke free from the strict disciplines and symmetry imposed by the Georgians and explored elaborate and more decorative designs; Castle Gayer is no exception. It is thought to have been built on the site of a medieval castle for a Robert Glasson Michell, merchant, his wife Elizabeth and their four sons, one of whom, William Gayer Michell, became captain of the ship Trekieve. Subsequently the house was owned by the St Aubyn family who live on St Michael's Mount and was sold into private hands when the Mount and surrounds were gifted to the National Trust.
In the last 3 years the house has been substantially renovated and during my recent visit it looks like the builders have nearly finished. To the right you can see the "castle" folly and the harbour below (Top Tieb) is where the boats for St Michael's Mount launch at high tide.
We visited Bolsover Castle a few months ago. If you're in the area it's well worth a visit. It is run by English Heritage who have made some effective restorations. I thank them for these words:
The castle was founded in the late 11th century by William Peveril, one of William the Conqueror’s knights, but it was neglected from the mid-14th century. Its ruins provided the setting for the Little Castle begun in 1612 by Sir Charles Cavendish as a retreat from his principal seat at Welbeck, a few miles away.
The design of the Little Castle was intended to evoke a Norman great tower, which it clearly resembles viewed from a distance, rising sheer from the cliff.
When Charles Cavendish died in 1617 most of the structure was finished. His son William – playboy, poet courtier and later first Duke of Newcastle – inherited the Little Castle and completed the interiors with the help of the architect John Smythson.
What resulted was a kind of ‘toy keep’, housing tiers of luxurious state rooms.
William also added the vast and stately Terrace Range overlooking the Vale of Scarsdale, now a dramatic roofless shell.
During the Civil War William fought for the Royalists, but he was defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644 and went into exile. On his return in 1660 he rebuilt the state apartment in the Terrace Range and built the cavernous Riding House Range with its magnificent roof and viewing galleries.
Decline began under Cavendish’s son Henry, who dismantled the state apartment. By the 1770s the Terrace Range was already in ruins. The estate passed to the Dukes of Portland, who kept the Little Castle as a retreat until the early 19th century. For most of the 19th century it was tenanted and used as a vicarage.
After Bolsover Colliery opened in 1889 the castle suffered from the effects of mining subsidence and pollution. In 1946 it was given to the Ministry of Works, who stabilised and repaired the buildings.
Learn more at: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/bolsover-castle
Corfe Castle has had a long and eventful history. Positioned strategically in the gap between the Purbeck hills, it was perfect for defending inland Dorset against attack from the sea. The surrounding agricultural lands and forests were rich, and could be used to provide food and resources for the Castle. Not surprisingly, therefore, Corfe Castle was a royal fortress for over 600 years. The 1000 year old ruined castle, is an iconic survivor of the English Civil War.
This lovely village is about 30 miles from the New Forest.
Lindisfarne Castle is a 16th-century castle located on Holy Island, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, much altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1901. The island is accessible from the mainland at low tide by means of a causeway.
The castle is located in what was once the very volatile border area between England and Scotland. Not only did the English and Scots fight, but the area was frequently attacked by Vikings. The castle was built in 1550, around the time that Lindisfarne Priory went out of use, and stones from the priory were used as building material. It is very small by the usual standards, and was more of a fort. The castle sits on the highest point of the island, a whinstone hill called Beblowe.
Lindisfarne's position in the North Sea made it vulnerable to attack from Scots and Norsemen, and by Tudor times it was clear there was a need for a stronger fortification, although obviously, by this time, the Norsemen were no longer a danger. This resulted in the creation of the fort on Beblowe Crag between 1570 and 1572 which forms the basis of the present castle.
After Henry VIII suppressed the priory, his troops used the remains as a naval store. In 1542 Henry VIII ordered the Earl of Rutland to fortify the site against possible Scottish invasion. By December 1547, Ralph Cleisbye, Captain of the fort, had guns including; a wheel mounted demi-culverin; 2 brass sakers; a falcon; and another fixed demi-culverin. However, Beblowe Crag itself was not fortified until 1549 and Sir Richard Lee saw only a decayed platform and turf rampart there in 1565. Elizabeth I then had work carried out on the fort, strengthening it and providing gun platforms for the new developments in artillery technology. These works in 1570 and 1571 cost £1191. When James I came to power in England, he combined the Scottish and English thrones, and the need for the castle declined. At this time the castle was still garrisoned from Berwick and protected the small Lindisfarne Harbour.
In the eighteenth century the castle was occupied briefly by Jacobite rebels, but was quickly recaptured by soldiers from Berwick who imprisoned the rebels; they dug their way out and hid for nine days close to nearby Bamburgh Castle before making good their escape.
In later years the castle was used as a coastguard look-out and became something of a tourist attraction. Charles Rennie Mackintosh made a sketch of the old fort in 1901.
In 1901, it became the property of Edward Hudson, a publishing magnate and the owner of Country Life magazine. He had it refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is said that Hudson and the architect came across the building while touring Northumberland and climbed over the wall to explore inside.
The walled garden, which had originally been the garrison's vegetable plot, was designed by Lutyens' long-time friend and collaborator, Gertrude Jekyll between 1906 and 1912. It is some distance away from the castle itself. Between 2002 and 2006 it was restored to Jekyll's original planting plan which is now held in the Reef Collection at the University of California, Berkeley. The castle, garden and nearby lime kilns have been in the care of the National Trust since 1944 and are open to visitors.
Lutyens used upturned disused boats (herring busses) as sheds. In 2005, two of the boats were destroyed by arson. They were replaced in 2006 and the third boat has now been renovated by the National Trust. The replacement of the two burned boats by two new boat sheds features on a new DVD Diary of an Island. This shows a fishing boat from Leith being cut in half in a boatyard in Eyemouth and the two "sheds" being transported to the island and lifted into place by crane.
The Spanish architect Enric Miralles used Lutyens' upturned herring busses as an inspiration for his design of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh.
The castle at Shanghai Disneyland, inspired by the castles at other Disney parks and their biggest castle in the world. The first to contain a full ride inside it. Weather at Shanghai Disneyland was awful during our visit so when I saw this sun glance during sunset and took the picture without even looking at my settings. F1.2 for this shot is terrible, but also a proof of just how sharp this Fuji lens really is.
These are pictures of a collaborative Lego Castle Layout that was on display on Lego World 2013. I'm proud to be one of the builders. :)
Rait Castle is a ruined hall-house castle dating from the thirteenth century, situated just south of Nairn near Inverness, Scotland .
The castle was originally a property of the Cumming ( Comyn ) family who were also known by the name of de Rait . Sir Alexander Rait killed the third Thane of Cawdor ( chief of Clan Calder ), and then fled south where he married the heiress of Hallgreen . The castle later passed from the Clan Cumming ( Comyn ) to the Clan Mackintosh and then to the Clan Campbell of Cawdor.
In 1442, when the castle passed to the Mackintoshes from the Clan Cumming ( Clan Comyn ) a feast was held at the castle between the two families which ended in the slaughter of most of the Comyns. The laird blamed his daughter who he chased around the castle . She climbed out of a window but he chopped off her hands and she fell to her death. The castle is said to be haunted by her ghost, with no hands.
Looking west from the chancel down the aisled nave. Begun in early 13c, or earlier, with an aisleless building, the chancel and a south aisle being added to the nave afterwards with the north aisle following mid 13c. Towards the end of the same century the south aisle was rebuilt, the east end forming a chantry chapel; The eastern part of the north aisle was rebuilt c 1320, and the rebuilding of the whole aisle was completed within the next 20 years. The nave was heightened with clerestory windows and the roof flattened in the late 15c
Picture with thanks - copyright Mike Berrell 2011 www.churches-uk-ireland.org/towns/c/castle_donington.html - Church of St Edward, King and Martyr, Castle Donington Leicestershire
This was taken on Saturday 21st September 2013 at the National Trust property Chirk Castle. For more information about Chirk Castle see the national trust web site:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chirk-castle/
This image is a HDR image taken as 7 stop exposures and processed using Photomatix and Adobe Lightroom.
Tintagel Castle (Cornish: Dintagel, meaning "fort of the constriction") is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island, adjacent to the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The site was possibly occupied in the Romano-British period, as an array of artefacts dating to this period have been found on the peninsula, but as yet no Roman era structure has been proven to have existed there. It subsequently saw settlement during the Early Medieval period, when it was probably one of the seasonal residences of the regional king of Dumnonia. A castle was built on the site by Richard, Earl of Cornwall in the 13th century, during the Later Medieval period, after Cornwall had been subsumed into the kingdom of England. It later fell into disrepair and ruin. Archaeological investigation into the site began in the 19th century as it became a tourist attraction, with visitors coming to see the ruins of Richard's castle. In the 1930s, excavations revealed significant traces of a much earlier high status settlement, which had trading links with the Mediterranean during the Late Roman period.
Castle Stalker – in the Gaelic, Stalcaire, meaning Hunter or Falconer – is believed originally to have been the site of a Fortalice (a small fortified building) belonging to the MacDougalls when they were Lords of Lorn, and built around 1320. The MacDougalls lost their title after their defeat by King Bruce at Brander Pass in 1308 but regained it for a period after 1328. In about 1388 the Lordship of Lorn passed to the Stewarts, the lands including Castle Stalker.
It is believed that Castle Stalker, much in its present form, was built by the then Lord of Lorn, Sir John Stewart, who had an illegitimate son in 1446, and it is reasonable to suppose that he built and occupied the Castle about that time. In 1463 Sir John Stewart was keen to legitimise his son by getting married to his Mother, a MacLaren, at Dunstaffnage when he was murdered outside the church by Alan MacCoul, a renegade MacDougall, although he survived long enough to complete the marriage and legitimise his son, Dugald, who became the First Chief of Appin. The Stewarts had their revenge on MacCoul at the Battle of Stalc in 1468 opposite the Castle when the Stewarts and MacLaren together defeated the MacDougalls, and Alan MacCoul was killed by Dugald himself. The site of this Battle is marked by a memorial stone in the Churchyard in Portnacroish.
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The seagull bathing in last sunlight was a bonus...staying there for two minutes till i was ready.
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Carrick Castle has long been believed to sit on the site of a former Royal hunting lodge, used by the Kings of Scots. The castle that replaced the hunting lodge was built in the 1400s (15th century). Various websites give earlier dates than this - which would appear to be wrong! In general, all major Scottish castles are found in records pertaining to the period of the wars with England in the 14th century and Carrick does not appear in these records, which suggests that whatever building was here prior to 1368, was of little or no military significance.
I have found two entirely different versions of the early history of the castle. Nigel Tranter states that it was the Lamonts, who originally owned much of the Cowal peninsula (until the Campbells took it off them by either fair means or foul) and who built this castle. In this instance he tells us, the Campells appear to have obtained Carrick by fair means (presumably by marriage) in the early 16th century, when it passed to the Campbells of Ardkinglas. The Campbells were certainly resident here by 1511, when Robert Campbell of Carrick is recorded as a witness to a grant made by his chief, Archibald Earl of Argyll.
Tranter is not entirely correct in saying that ownership passed to the Campbells of Ardkinglas. The Earl of Argyll became the owner and the Campbells of Ardkinglas became the Hereditary Captains of the castle.
The second version, by a no less reputable source - namely the team of archaeologists that excavated the site in the 1990s, is that the castle was indeed built in the late 14th century, but by the Campbells of Loch Awe themselves, later the Earls of Argyll.
In my view, Tranter for once is probably wrong and that while the Lamonts may once have owned or held the lands of Carrick, they no longer did when the castle was built. What is more, there is evidence to suggest that it was not the Lamonts that the Campbells obtained Carrick from anyway, but the Stewarts.
The Stewart powerbase until the mid 14th century was based around Bute, Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Cowal, but when King David Bruce died childless in 1371 and John Stewart changed his name to Robert and became King Robert II (by virtue of his mother being King Robert Bruce's daughter Marjorie), the Stewarts at once had far more important matters to attend to than the mountains and bogs of Argyll. The Campbell rise to prominence was greatly aided by the Stewart's elevation to the crown. The Stewarts relied heavily on the Campbells and other local supporters to maintain their authority in their former territories, so it would seem likely that the Stewarts may have granted Cowal to the Campbells.
Either way, in 1532, Duncan Campbell is recorded as Captain of Carrick, and 1562 John Campbell was likewise. In 1685, John Campbell of Carrick was summoned to Edinburgh on account of the young Earl of Argyll's invasion of that year. In the laird's absence, his great lands were harried by the opposition, and it is reported that they took away 119 horses, 330 cattle, and 188 sheep. In 1715, Sir John Campbell of Carrick was one of the signatories to 'The Resolve', at Inverary, which 'resolved' to defend King George's person and government from the Jacobites. The property later passed to the Murrays, Earls of Dunmore.
Katja, a beautiful freckles model
Location: 'Raubschloss Ringethal', built in 1315 as Lewenhain Castle, Saxony
Dolbadarn Castle, Llanberis, North Wales
- Built in the early 13th century by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.
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Margam Castle is a large house built in Margam, Port Talbot, South Wales, for the Talbot family. The "castle" is actually a comfortable Victorian country house, one of many "mock" or "revival" castles built in the 19th century during the Gothic Revival. It was commissioned by Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803-1890) and was constructed over a ten-year period from 1830 to 1840.
After a Grand Tour of Europe, Talbot returned to south Wales and from 1830 set about redeveloping the family estate at Margam. The mansion was designed in the Tudor Gothic style by architect Thomas Hopper (1776-1856), while Edward Haycock (1790-1870) was supervisory architect and designed parts of the interior and exterior of the house, the stables, terraces and lodges. Talbot also took a keen interest in the project, encouraging his architects to borrow elements from Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire (ancestral home of the Talbots and home to his cousin William Henry Fox Talbot) and Melbury House in Dorset (home of his mother's family, the Fox-Strangeways, Earls of Ilchester).
William Henry Fox Talbot was a frequent visitor to Margam, and the castle featured as an image in some of his early photographic experiments. Margam's links with photography also include the earliest known Welsh photograph, a daguerreotype of the castle taken on 9 March 1841 by the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones.
After the death of Emily Charlotte Talbot (daughter of C.M.R.Talbot), the castle passed to her nephew, and continued to be used by the family until 1941, when it was sold. David Evans-Bevan, who bought it, found it too large to live in, but could not find any public organisation interested in taking it on, and it fell into disrepair. For many years it belonged to the local authority, but was not open to the public. In 1977, a fire caused substantial damage, and it was only after this that the restoration project seriously began.
Today Margam Castle is a Grade I listed building, and is in the care of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
Gylen Castle on the island of Kerrera. Ruined and roofless but still standing against storm and sea.
Built in 1582 by the Clan MacDougall, it was only occupied for a relatively short period of time before it was besieged then burned by the Covenanters under General Leslie in 1647 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Wray is not a real castle but a private house built in in the Gothic Revival Style in 1840. It was built for Dr James Dawson, a retired Liverpool surgeon, and is now owned by the National Trust. The house was built using his wife’s inheritance from a gin fortune. Apparently she took one look at the house when it was finished, and refused to live in it.
Wray Castle is a very elaborate building. James Dawson could essentially build whatever he wanted, from a portcullis to turrets which don’t have any access to them, as well as arrow slits and even mock ruins in the grounds.
It was designed by John Jackson Lightfoot who was a trained accountant with an interest in architecture. It was his first and only design as he sadly drank himself to death before it was finished. H.P. Horner, a more experienced architect stepped in to complete the design. So what you see is a combination of Lightfoot’s playful fantasy design and Horner’s practical approach.
After Dr Dawson’s death in 1875, when he was 96, the estate was inherited by his young nephew, Preston Rawnsley. In 1877 Preston’s cousin, Hardwicke Rawnsley, took up the appointment of vicar of Wray Church (next to the Castle and built at the same time by Dr Dawson).
The castle has been in the care of the National Trust since 1929, when it was given to the trust by Sir Noton Barclay to celebrate his year of office as Lord Mayor of Manchester.
The castle of Nové Město nad Metují is a part the town historical preserve and is located in the west corner of the square. It was built together with the town itself, originally as a gothic style fort. Historical resources say that the foundation stone of the town and the castle was laid on the 10th of August 1501 at 2 p.m. by Jan Černčický of Kácov, the owner of the estate.
After the town fire in 1526, Jan Černčicky sold the estate to the Pernstejns, who were important and wealthy noble family of the time. Following the then modern Renaissance concepts, they began with renovations of their new residence and the town itself. The estate was then sold to Protestant noble family from Styria – the Stubenbergs. They completed the renaissance renovations of the town and the castle became a Renaissance chateau. After the Estates Rebellion of 1620, in which the Stubenbergs took the part of the anti-imperialist side, the Nové Město estate was confiscated by the emperor Ferdinand II. Albrecht of Valdstejn owned the estate for a short period of time, in 1624 it was bought by Trckas of Lipa. Again, in 1634, the estate was taken away when the then current owner Adam Erdman Trcka of Lipa and others were accused of anti-imperialist conspiracy and executed in 1634 in Cheb. The property and possessions were consequently given away by the Emperor as a reward for the assassination of the nobles. A Scottish noble, Walter of Leslie, a chief constable of Cheb at the time, later promoted to a field-marshal and a count of the empire, obtained the Nove Město estate. Under the reign of the House of Leslie, the Chateau received its most extensive renovations. The Baroque style structural changes and additions accomplished during this time remain to this day. The Chateau was widened by the addition of the ground floor arcade and the first and second floor halls. The second floor was richly embellished with stucco decorations and frescoes depicting tales from Greek and Roman mythology. In 1802, the last of Sir Walter´s family died and the Chateau was inherited by the family Ditrichstejn-Leslie. This family did not maintain the place and it remained mostly unoccupied which led to its dilapidation in 19th century.
Burgruine Neideck, das Wahrzeichen der Fränkischen Schweiz
The ruins of Neideck Castle, the Franconian Switzerland landmark.
Portchester Castle is a Norman Baronial Castle built within a Roman Fort. The Romans built the fort here between 285AD and 290AD
Karlštejn Castle (Czech: Karlštejn; German: Burg Karlstein) is a large Gothic castle founded 1348 AD by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor-elect and King of Bohemia. The castle served as a place for safekeeping the Imperial Regalia as well as the Bohemian/Czech crown jewels, holy relics, and other royal treasures. Located about 30 km southwest of Prague above the village of the same name, it is one of the most famous and most frequently visited castles in the Czech Republic.
Built for L13 contest in BrickPirate French board "MotorBack in Time"
The challenge was to build a bike inspired by 70808 but in Castle universe.
Langley Castle in the Northumbrian valley of the South Tyne near Hayden Bridge was built in 1350 by Sir Thomas de Lucy. The de Lucy’s lived in a Manor house on an a substantial estate. In times of danger they made use of the nearby Staward Pele Tower. A raid by the scots in 1346, which resulted in the destruction of the Manor house, convinced Sir Thomas that a stronghold capable of defence in the event of Scots raids or other dangers in the border country was required. Sir Thomas died shortly after the Castle was finished and it passed by marriage first to the Umfravilles of Prudhoe then to the Percy family and the 1st Earl of Northumberland. The Percy’s quarreled with King Henry 1V but the Castle was gutted before it was confiscated by the King. In 1415 but Henry V restored the various properties to the Percy family. With the onset of the Wars of the Roses the 2nd and 3rd Earls of Northumberland supported the Lancastrian cause. The Yorkist King Edward 1V prevailed and the Percy properties were confiscated again but they were reinstated in 1469. In 1542 the Castle was described as ruined but as it was in a strategic position for defence against Scots raids and Reivers it was restored in 1550. The Crown returned the Percy estates in 1551 but the castle was again confiscated by Elizabeth 1st in 1558 after the 6th Earl of Northumberland took part in the Rising of the North. In 1622 the estate, including the Castle was bought by Sir Edward Radcliffe who later sided with the Royalists in the Civil War and the Castle was impounded later recovered in 16871. It passed to the Earls of Derwentwater who became involved in the Jacobite Rebellions and the Castle reverted to the Crown. The estate was let out and the Castle was left. In 1860 some restoration works was undertaken. In 1902 the Castle was purchased by John Bates who began major restoration continued after 1985 by Professor Stuart Madnick. The Castle has been restored sympathetically reflecting its history and is now an hotel.
Looking down to Conwy Castle from the moorland by Moel Esgob. Robert Stephenson's railway bridge from the 1840's abuts the southern wall of the castle.