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Saltram House, west front Saltram House, south (main entrance) front, with the Parker arms in the pediment Saltram House circa 1832, by William Henry Bartlett Drawing room, Saltram House Exterior of the Castle Folly Interior of the Castle Folly. Saltram House is a grade I listed [1] George II era house in Plympton, Devon, England.
Tower houses are often called castles, and despite their characteristic compact footprint size, they are formidable habitations and there is no clear distinction between a castle and a tower house. In Scotland a classification system has been widely accepted based on ground plan, such as the L-plan castle style, one example being the original ...
The initial financing for this expensive project came from his mother-in-law's inheritance, Elisabeth of Palandt. From 1571 onwards, Rütger funded the interior design of his castle using the proceeds from his lucrative investment in a salt and peat company based in West Frisia. Renaissance courtyard facade of the castle, drawing by Gustav Greiß
The castle is fictional, but the historical context is real. Macaulay places its construction in North West Wales between 1283 and 1288, when Edward I of England was in fact building a string of castles to help his conquest of that land, a long-term strategy which involved the English establishing an irremovable presence in Wales over generations until they are gradually accepted by the native ...
Entrance to Schloss Braunfels from the town A view through the castle gates. During the Thirty Years' War, Braunfels Castle was contested and heavily damaged. [3] Due to his support for Frederick V, the Winter King, Count Johann Albrecht I of Solms-Braunfels was placed under Imperial ban, and in 1621, the castle was taken without resistance by Spanish troops on behalf of the emperor. [3]
The Château de Langeais is a 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic castle in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of the Roumer River at the opening to the Loire Valley. Founded in 992 by Fulk Nerra, Count of Anjou, the castle was soon attacked by Odo I, Count of Blois.
However, images of the building's interior and references to its history are scarce. The first drawing of the Alcázar was done by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen in 1534, [2]: 7 three decades before Madrid was named as the capital of Spain. The drawing shows a castle divided into two main parts, which may correspond, at least partially, to the ...