Home > Industry/Domain > Architecture
Architecture
The science of designing and building structures for habitation.
8Categories 16895Terms
Add a new termContributors in Architecture
Architecture > Castles 
Llawhden Castle
Architecture; Castles
Llawhaden Castle was built by the Bishops of St Davids cathedral. It was probably Bernard, the first Norman bishop, who founded the castle in the early 12th century to protect the ...
Longtown Castle
Architecture; Castles
Longtown Castle stands on the Welsh border at the base of the Black Mountains. It is a fairly standard motte-and-bailey earthwork, built by William de Lacy in the 1180's on the ...
Lydford Castle
Architecture; Castles
The first Norman castle was built at Lydford soon after the conquest of 1066; the remains of its earthworks can be seen on the south side of St Petrock's Church. A new tower was ...
MacLellan Castle
Architecture; Castles
MacLellan's Castle stands on the site of the convent of Greyfriars in the centre of Kirkcudbright. Sir Thomas MacLellan acquired the site nine years after the Reformation Act of ...
Manorbier Castle
Architecture; Castles
Manorbier Castle is a fortified manor overlooking a sheltered beach. The lands on which it is built were granted to the Norman knight, Odo de Barri, at the end of the 11th ...
Raby Castle
Architecture; Castles
Raby Castle is a large fortified mansion house that has gradually developed into an impressive stately home. John, 3rd Baron Nevill, obtained a licence to crenellate in 1378, ...
Raglan Castle
Architecture; Castles
The first castle at Raglan was a Norman motte and bailey which survived until the early 15th century when it came into the hands of Sir William ap Thomas, a Welsh knight who had ...
Sub-categories
- Architecture contemporaine (2777)
- Bridges (584)
- Castles (4382)
- Churches (28)
- General architecture (8959)
- Landscape design (1741)
- Postmodernist architecture ()
- Skyscrapers (311)