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Restormel Castle
Restormel Castle ((コーンウォール語:Kastel Rostorrmel))〔(Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) ) : (List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel ). Cornish Language Partnership.〕 lies by the River Fowey near Lostwithiel in Cornwall, England, UK. It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design. Although once a luxurious residence to the Earl of Cornwall, the castle became ruined in the years after the English Civil War and is now in the care of English Heritage and is open to the public.
==Architecture==
Located on high land overlooking the River Fowey, Restormel Castle is an unusual, perfectly circular shell keep with an internal bailey, built of shale. It contains a limited number of stone domestic buildings, clustered around the inside of the wall to form a defensive bailey; the buildings are curved to fit into the shell keep, in an extreme example of the 13th century trend.〔Pounds, p. 188; Pettifer, p. 21; Hull and Whitehorne, p. 64.〕 These included a kitchen, hall, solar, guest chambers and an ante-chapel.〔Pettifer, p. 22.〕 Water from a natural spring was piped under pressure into the castle buildings.〔Creighton, p. 54.〕 A square gate tower, largely ruined, guards the entrance to the inner castle, and may have been the first part of the original castle to have been partially constructed in stone.〔 On the opposite side, a square mural tower contains the castle chapel.〔 A former external bailey wall has since been destroyed, leaving no trace.〔Pettifer, p. 21; Steane, p. 42.〕 There are also historical references to a dungeon, also now vanished.〔Oman, pp109-11.〕
The castle appears to stand upon a motte; this is partially correct, as the massive walls were, unusually for the period, sunk deep into the original motte; the effect is heightened by a surrounding ringwork, subsequently filled in on the inner side so as to appear to heap against the castle wall.〔Pettifer, p.21; Hull and Whitehorne, p. 65.〕 This may have occurred in the castle's later history to provide a garden walk around the ruin.〔Creighton, p. 83.〕
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