Located near Colchester, Essex, England, Colchester castle is a Norman cast

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Located near Colchester, Essex, England, Colchester castle is a Norman castle that was constructed in the latter part of the eleventh century. Because the castle was constructed on the ruins of the Roman Temple of Claudius in Colchester, it has the largest surviving keep of any kind in all of Europe. The castle was the subject of a three-month siege in 1216, but by the seventeenth century, it was in poor condition; the curtain walls and some of the higher portions of the keep were destroyed. Its original height is disputed. After being utilized as a jail and partially renovated into a sizable garden pavilion, the remaining building was acquired by the Colchester Borough Council in 1922. The Colchester Museum, which houses a significant collection of Roman artifacts, has been housed in the castle since 1860. It is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument. The designation of the castle as a royal foundation is based on a charter issued by Henry I in 1101, which gave Eudo Dapifer ownership of the town and fortress of Colchester. The castle-construction is credited to Eudo by the rather untrustworthy Colchester Chronicle, which dates its writing to the late 13th century and places its start in 1076. The White Tower at the Tower of London and Colchester share features that have led to the association of the castle-design with Gundulf of Rochester. The decision to employ the masonry base or platform of the Temple of Claudius, the biggest Roman temple in Britain, which was constructed between AD 49 and 60, determined the huge size of the castle. The location is high land at the western end of the walled town, and near the temple remains before the Norman Conquest were a Saxon church and other structures that might have been part of a royal hamlet. The ready-made foundations and the availability of Roman building materials in a place devoid of locally occurring stone were the clear reasons for repurposing this site. #History #Architecture #Castles

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