Warwick Castle
— — a thousand years of wall above slow water.
Not only on a wall.
“A sandstone keep on a bend of the River Avon, raised by the Conqueror in 1068 and rebuilt in stone across the long Plantagenet century. Caesar's Tower still throws its shadow over the water at four in the afternoon, the same angle it has thrown for six hundred winters.
Warwick Castle, on ceramic.
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Warwick Castle stands on a sandstone bluff above the River Avon in the county town of Warwickshire, England, about thirty miles southeast of Birmingham. William the Conqueror raised the original motte and bailey in 1068, securing the road north from London. The fortress passed to the Beauchamp earls in the thirteenth century and was rebuilt in stone through the 1300s. The Greville family held it from 1604 until 1978, when it was sold to the Tussauds Group. Merlin Entertainments has operated the castle as a public site since 2007.
The curtain wall and the two great fourteenth-century towers form the public face of the castle. Caesar's Tower rises 44.8 metres above the river on the east, its trefoil plan unusual in English military architecture, finished around 1356. Guy's Tower on the north stands 39 metres and dates from about 1395. Both are built of local Warwickshire sandstone, the same beige-pink stone quarried at nearby Coten End. The masonry shows the marks of repeated repair across six centuries of weather, siege, and tourism.
The castle opens daily to the public, with reduced hours in winter and timed entry in peak summer. A working trebuchet, one of the largest in the world at 18 metres tall and 22 tonnes, fires twice a day from the riverbank below the mound between April and October. The interior staterooms, the Great Hall, the chapel, and the dungeon are walkable. The town of Warwick sits immediately outside the main gate, and the railway station is a ten-minute walk.