Imponente torre di guardia del castello normanno a Bramber nel West Sussex, in Inghilterra, costruita con pietra di selce locale e costosa pietra di Caen vestita, importata dalla Francia.
2832 x 4256 px | 24 x 36 cm | 9,4 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
19 maggio 2011
Ubicazione:
Bramber, West Sussex, England, UK
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Bramber, West Sussex, England: gatehouse tower of Bramber Castle, on the edge of the village of Bramber, near the town of Steyning, and overlooking the river Adur. The castle was built soon after 1066 and William the Conqueror’s Norman invasion of England as part of a network of castles to protect King William I’s new territories and to guard the Sussex coast. The gatehouse was heightened, probably in the early 1100s, by more than 15 metres, creating a three-storey great tower built of chalk, limestone, local flint and expensive dressed Caen stone imported from France. The first castle at Bramber was built in 1073, of motte-and-bailey design, by William de Braose (c. 1049 - 1094), who had accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy. An artificial mound or motte was raised in the middle of a natural knoll, protected on three sides by a deep ditch. The northern part, beyond the motte, became the ‘bailey’ or enclosure. Around the end of the 1000s, a deep ditch was dug around the whole knoll. A stone curtain wall was built on top, with a gatehouse controlling the main entrance to the south. Bramber Castle remained in the de Braose family for more than 200 years, but in the early 1300s passed by marriage to the de Mowbray family and later to the Howard Dukes of Norfolk. It was sold privately in 1926, purchased by the National Trust in 1946 and is now maintained by English Heritage. D0988.B1895
