Architects, advisers and design at Edward I's castles in wales

Architectural History

Volumn 46, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Coldstream, Nicola ^a  

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EID: 34250747209     PISSN: 0066622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1568798     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. King's Works, pp. 293-408
2. A. J. Taylor, 'Master James of St. George', English Historical Review, 65 (1950), pp. 433-57. See also note 5, below
3. These articles, published in many different journals between 1950 and 1977, have been collected in Studies. Unless otherwise stated, all references to Taylor's work will be to that volume, which is continuously paginated. Individual articles cited are: 'Castle-Building in Thirteenth-Century Wales and Savoy', The Albert Reckitt Memorial Lecture, 1977. Proceedings of the British Academy, 63 (1977), pp. 265-92 (Studies, pp. 1-28)
4. 'The Castle of St. Georges-d'Espéranche', Antiquaries Journal, 33 (1953), pp. 33-47 (Studies, pp. 29-44); 'Master James of St. George', English Historical Review, 65 (1950), pp. 433-57 (Studies, pp. 64-98); 'Castle-Building in Wales in the Later Thirteenth Century: the Prelude to Construction', in Studies in Building History: Essays in Recognition of the Work of B. H. St. J. O'Neil, ed. E. M. Jope (London, 1961), pp. 104-33 (Studies, pp. 99-128); 'The Date of Caernarvon Castle', Antiquity, 26 (1952), pp. 25-34 (Studies, pp. 129-38); 'Who was "John Pennardd, Leader of the Men of Gwynedd"?', English Historical Review, 90 (1976), pp. 79-97 (Studies, pp. 209-30); 'Stephen de Pencestre's Account as Constable of Dover Castle for the Years Michaelmas 1272-Michaelmas 1274', in Collectanea Historica: Essays in Memory of Stuart Rigold, ed. A. Detsicas (Gloucester, 1981), pp. 114-22 (Studies, pp. 249-56)
5. Studies, p. 79
6. J. H. Harvey, Henry Yevele c. 1320 to 1400. The Life of an English Architect (London, 1944)
7. E.g. S. Murray, Building Troyes Cathedral. The Late Gothic Campaigns (Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987)
8. R. Goy, The House of Gold. Building a Palace in Medieval Venice (Cambridge, 1992)
9. A. Taylor, Rhuddlan Castle, 3rd edn (Cardiff, 1982); A. Taylor, Harlech Castle, 3rd edn (Cardiff, 1997); A. Taylor, Caernarfon Castle and Town Walls, 5th edn (Cardiff, 2001); A. Taylor, Conwy Castle and Town Walls, 4th edn (Cardiff, 1998); D. Renn and R. Avent, Flint Castle Ewloe Castle, rev. edn (Cardiff, 2001); A. Phillips, Bcaumaris Castle (Cardiff, 1961)
10. P. Curnow, 'Some developments in military architecture c. 1200: Le Coudray-Salbart', Proceedings of the Battle Abbey Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, 2 (1979), pp. 42-62
11. J. Knight, 'The Road to Harlech: aspects of some early thirteenth-century Welsh castles', in Castles in Wales and the Marches. Essays in honour of D. J. Cathcart King, ed. J. Kenyon and R. Avent (Cardiff, 1987), pp. 75-88; J. Mesqui, Châteaux forts et fortifications en France (Paris, 1997), pp. 138-41,153-54
12. Mesqui, Châteaux forts, pp. 15-16; Prestwich, p. 211
13. R. Avent, 'The Late 12th-century Gatehouse at Chepstow Castle', Château Gaillard, 20 (2002), pp. 27-40
14. J. Goodall, 'Dover Castle and the great siege of 1216', Château Gaillard, 19 (1998), pp. 97-99
15. Knight, 'The Road to Harlech', above, n. 23. Knight's suggestion (p. 83) that the quadrangular plan with a strengthened tower travelled from France to Savoy and came to Wales with Master James direct from Savoy rather than from parts of France that were well known to the English is an ingenious attempt to conform to Taylor's influential views. L. Alcock, 'Excavations at Degannwy Castle, Caernarvonshire, 1961-6', Archaeological Journal, 124 (1967), pp. 192-96 and fig. 2
16. Renn; see also D. Renn, Caerphilly Castle (Cardiff, 1989)
17. N. Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture, 7th edn (London, 1973), p. 15
18. N. Pevsner, 'Terms of Architectural Planning in the Middle Ages', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 5 (1942), pp. 232-37
19. L. R. Shelby, 'The Role of the Master Mason in Medieval English Building', Speculum, 39 (1966), pp. 387-403
20. English Medieval Architects, pp. 23-25; King's Works, passim; H. Colvin (ed.), The Building Accounts of King Henry III (Oxford, 1971), pp. 416-22
21. Renn, p. 98 and fig. 18
22. Renn, n. 21, pi. XVII
23. Renn, Caerphilly Castle, pp. 16-19; 34-35
24. English Medieval Architects, pp. 136-37
25. J. M. Maddison, 'Decorated Architecture in the North-West Midlands - an investigation of the work of provincial masons and their sources' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Manchester, 1978)
26. Prestwich, p. 209
27. The Treasurers were Joseph de Chauncy, Richard Ware and John Kirby; the Keepers, Thomas Bek and William Louth; the Stewards, Hugh FitzOtho, Robert Fitzjohn, and John de Montalt: Prestwich, pp. 138-39, 145, 234-35
28. Maddison, Decorated Architecture in the North-West Midlands, pp. 72,104
29. Studies, p. 180; J. Kenyon, Kidwelly Castle, rev. edn (Cardiff, 1990), pp. 28-34
30. R. Morris, 'The Architecture of Arthurian Enthusiasm: Castle Symbolism in the Reigns of Edward I and His Successors', in Armies, Chivalry and Warfare in Medieval Britain and France, ed. M. Strickland, Proceedings of the 1995 Harlaxton Symposium (Stamford, 1998), pp. 63-81
31. As late as 1987, however, Taylor argued that Caernarfon was deliberately chosen as Edward's birthplace, citing evidence that the lower floors of the Eagle tower were built unusually fast to be ready in time. See A. Taylor, 'The Beaumaris Castle building acount of 1295-1298', in Castles in Wales and the Marches, ed. Kenyon and Avent, p. 126
32. A. Taylor, Caernarfon Castle and Town Walls, 5th edn (Cardiff, 2001), pp. 31-32. I thank Jeremy Ashbee for drawing my attention to the heads on the earlier towers