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Castle gates and garden gates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

R. Allen Brown
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The object of this short note is simply to draw attention to a type of castle gateway which has evidently escaped attention; though, of course, individual examples have usually been duly noted in published descriptions of those castles where they occur. What we may call, by contrast, the two recognized types of castle gate are (i) the single mural tower pierced by the entrance passage, and (ii) the twin-towered gateway which, consisting essentially of a pair of mural or flanking towers, one on either side of the gateway through the curtain, develops from at least the thirteenth century into the great twin-towered gatehouse of the later Middle Ages.

Type
Section 6: A Miscellany of Building Types and Some Definitions
Information
Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 443 - 445
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

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Notes

1 I Though I was anxious to accept the invitation to contribute to this volume in honour of Howard Colvin, in the event unforeseen circumstances prevent my offering more than a brief note, without drawings or plates. For those castles discussed in any detail reference is given where possible to published works or monographs including plans.

should like to acknowledge helpful conversations at various times with P. E. Curnow, J. K. Knight and O. J. Weaver.

2 Ex inform. Weaver, O. J.. Cf. Peers, Sir Charles Richmond Castle (HMSO, 1977).Google Scholar

3 Perks, J. C. Chepstow Castle (HMSO, 1955).Google Scholar

4 Ibid., p. 20.

5 Ibid., p. 24.

6 Ibid., pp. 25-26.

7 The Tower of London: its Buildings and Institutions, ed. Charlton, John (HMSO, 1978), p. 55 Google Scholar et seq.; Brown, R. Allen The Tower of London (HMSO, 1984), p. 49 Google Scholar etseq.

8 Taylor, A. J. Conway Castle and Town Walls (HMSO, 1956), pp. 15-16.Google Scholar

9 History of the King’s Works, ed. Colvin, H. M. 1 (HMSO, 1963), 314.Google Scholar

10 See Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire Raisonné de ¡’architecture française, 1 (1868), 107-17 with plans and drawings.

11 Congrès Archéologique de France (1937), pp. 300 et seq. Cf. Viollet-le-Duc, hi, 165, 167.

12 Knight, J. K. ‘Usk castle and its affinities’, in Ancient Monuments and their Interpretation: Essays presented to Taylor, A. J. ed. Apted, M. R. Gilyard-Beer, R. Saunders, A. D. (1977).Google Scholar

13 Congrès Archéologique (1968), p. 271 et seq.

14 Gaspare Lenzi, Il Castello di Melfi et la sua construzione (Amatrice Scuola Tipografica dell’ Orfanotrofio Maschile, 1935-xiii).