Floor Plans; Bodiam Castle Floor Plan Bodiam Castle Floor Plan . Floor Plan Legend. 1. Gatehouse 2. North-East Tower 3. North-West Tower 4. South-East Tower 5. South-West Tower 6. East Tower 7. West Tower 8. Postern Tower 9. Chapel 10. Great Hall 11. Kitchen 12. Pantry 13. Buttery 14. Ante Room 15. Hall 16. Chamber 17. ...

Bodiam Castle (/ ˈ b oʊ d i ə m /) is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War.

Most castles have similar features, though all are unique due to their location and the surrounding geography. Here, you will find floor plans to understand their impressive constructions.

Sep 25, 2011 · English: This plan shows a ground plan of Bodiam Castle derived from one published in Archaeological Journal (1905) v62 page 179. But it has been modified to include …

Sep 20, 2011 · The difference between the 2004 plan and this is that the 2004 one had three rooms in place of numbers 1 and 13. The three rooms that occupy the position of 1 and 13 are labelled "ante room", "hall", and "chamber".

Mar 28, 2014 · This is a plan of Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. Marg drew it for me using a couple of existing plans I found on the web for reference. Having a drawing of it is handy, as it can be scanned at a high resolution and printed out (on several sheets of paper) at a scale for using with miniatures. I t is drawn on an A5 sheet of paper with a 7mm grid ...

Bodiam Castle is one of the most photographed and picturesque castles in England, featured on countless postcards, cookie tins, and calendars. It's the quintessential image that people imagine when they think of a castle, with its towers and moat.

A quadrangular castle: Bodiam Castle’s design. Surrounded by water and accessible only by a moat, Bodiam Castle––a mostly square-shaped, quadrangular castle––features one of the most unique design layouts in all of British architecture. At the time, Bodiam Castle featured a main interior castle courtyard, with buildings set against ...

The first is a text, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and the second is a monument in its landscape, the castle of Bodiam in East Sussex.

Bodiam Castle was built to a simple rectangular plan, with no keep, in the middle of an artificial watery landscape that created a spectacular moat around it. There are four circular 'drum' towers at each of the corners and square central towers on three of the four sides.