What rooms belong in a castle?
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What rooms belong in a castle?
I'm trying to decide what to put in my latest lego castle, and I need your help . What room/rooms do you think are essential to have in a castle? So far I think there should be:
Dining hall/room of some sort
Study/Library
Stable
Blacksmith
Jail(s)
Bedroom
Please add any and every room (or thing) you think a castle must have. Thanks.
-The Josh
Dining hall/room of some sort
Study/Library
Stable
Blacksmith
Jail(s)
Bedroom
Please add any and every room (or thing) you think a castle must have. Thanks.
-The Josh
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Re: What rooms belong in a castle?
Sounds good. Put in perhaps some more quarters, a kitchen, and of course, and armory.The Josh wrote:I'm trying to decide what to put in my latest lego castle, and I need your help . What room/rooms do you think are essential to have in a castle? So far I think there should be:
Dining hall/room of some sort
Study/Library
Stable
Blacksmith
Jail(s)
Bedroom
Please add any and every room (or thing) you think a castle must have. Thanks.
-The Josh
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Treasury, Kitchens, Garderobe, Barracks, Well, Gardens, Queen's Chambers(If you have a queen), Servants quarters, Courtyard, Practice yard for training soldiers/knights and a Secret exit for the King. Just a few things off the top of my head. The garderobe is what they used to call a bathroom. see Here:
http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/art ... conCG.html
You could also refer to: http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/articles/List.html for a few more ideas. Kevin Blocksidge did both of these great little articles. I wonder what happened to the rest of the Lexicon?
Will
http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/art ... conCG.html
You could also refer to: http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/articles/List.html for a few more ideas. Kevin Blocksidge did both of these great little articles. I wonder what happened to the rest of the Lexicon?
Will
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Re: What rooms belong in a castle?
Hello!
So a library would be essential to a monastery but not at all to a castle.
Bed rooms.... Well, the servants and troops did not have their own individual bedrooms but slept together in one large dorm room. Usually the same room that was the living room during the day. Don't tell your parents, they didn't even have seperate rooms for men and women, oh no! Maybe the lord of the castle and his family had their seperate rooms, in this case possibly bowers for the women. But that's not necessarily the normal case.
Other rooms (some castles have them, others don't):
A well room (to prevent things falling into the well, like dirt, children, dead birds...).
A chapel.
Stables not only for the warhorses but also for cattles, pigs, poultry.
Repositories.
A room/house for the castellan (Reeve'S office?).
A torture chamber (well, not every single castle was in need of such an unpleasant place...).
Bye
Jojo
Though I'm quite a friend of books in general I'm afraid a castle was not exactly the place to study. Most people in the middle ages weren't even able to read and write.The Josh wrote:Study/Library
So a library would be essential to a monastery but not at all to a castle.
Bed rooms.... Well, the servants and troops did not have their own individual bedrooms but slept together in one large dorm room. Usually the same room that was the living room during the day. Don't tell your parents, they didn't even have seperate rooms for men and women, oh no! Maybe the lord of the castle and his family had their seperate rooms, in this case possibly bowers for the women. But that's not necessarily the normal case.
Other rooms (some castles have them, others don't):
A well room (to prevent things falling into the well, like dirt, children, dead birds...).
A chapel.
Stables not only for the warhorses but also for cattles, pigs, poultry.
Repositories.
A room/house for the castellan (Reeve'S office?).
A torture chamber (well, not every single castle was in need of such an unpleasant place...).
Bye
Jojo
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The King may have had a study and a wealthier king might have had a study/office for his aide that would be situated adjacent to the kings, but Jojo is right, there wasn't usually a library. The king's/noble's children would also have a tutor and aside from the nobility/church very few others would have known how to read or write. Keep in mind the size of your castle, if it is only a 32 by 32 castle, you probably won't be adding more than just the basics.
Will
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Thats called a Garderobe, right? The little wooden or stone type out-house at the top of a castle wall by the walk way . Sometimes they were built inside the castle too with a angled slot which led to an opening so the poo could fall outside.Toilet, you guys forget the toilet... Room up in a tower with a hole in a lean over floor so the poo drops right down all the way into the ditch if you have one.
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