Floorplan, adapted  from Thompson, page  115
Screen-Sized Version

General Views
Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Castle in distance Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 View  of Castle from across River Aln Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image

Barbican Note the stone figures of warriors on the merlons. Though the figures are modern, the pracitice of having stone "defender" figures was comparitavely common in England in the Middle Ages. Thompson argues that they were purely ornamental and designed to frighten attackers. Thompson, page 245.
General View  Thompson, p 243 Screen-sized image	Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Enciente Walls (before 1157) Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image

Wards
Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Octagonal Towers and Postern Towers Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Outer Bailey and View Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Middle Gateway Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image

Octagonal Towers : Gatehouse of Keep
Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image	Courtesy of Dr. Ruth Dean/1967 Screen-sized Image / Large "Archive" Image

• The gatehouse of the keep and curtain walls of the wards are thought to date from the 12th century. They are usually attributed to Eustace, son of King John I. Eustace died in 1157. (Thompson, p 116)
• Earlier castle bought by Henry Percy in 1309-10, who made many changes to the keep and other parts of the castle (Platt, page 128-30)
• Most of the buildings on the center mound around the courtyard are 19th century reconstructions of the 14th century house of the Percys. (Thompson, p 115)

Platt, Colin. The Castle in Medieval England and Wales. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981. ISBN 0 76070 054 0

Thompson, Alexander Hamilton.  Military architecture in England during the middle ages, by A. Hamilton Thompson ... illustrated by 200 photographs,    drawings, and plans. London, New York [etc.] H. Frowde, 1912.  LC number NA963 .T46

Toy, Sidney.  Castles, a short history of fortifications from 1600 B.C. to A. D. 1600 London, Toronto, W. Heinemann, ltd. [1939]. LC Number:
                                             NA490 .T75

Rathbone, Jill. "Alnwick Castle" in Archaeological Journal 133 (1976) p. 149.

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