Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Part 1: description and discussion of the castle buildings by M R McCarthy and R G Annis
• 1 The castle's setting
• Location
• The geology of Carlisle by B. Young
• The topography and early history of Carlisle
• 2 Introduction to the castle
• The analysis and source material
• The layout of the castle
• The earliest castle
• 3 The defences
• Introduction:
• The outer bridge and outer ditch
• Discussion
• The curtain walls:
• Introduction
• The inner ward
• The outer ward
• Discussion
• The outer gatehouse (De Ireby's Tower):
• The exterior
• The interior
• Discussion
• The half-moon battery, inner ditch and bridge:
• Discussion
• The city walls and the Tile Tower (Richard III's Tower):
• The north-east city walls
• The western city walls and the Tile Tower (exterior)
• The interior of the Tile Tower
• Discussion
• 4 The buildings of the inner ward
• Introduction:
• Access into the inner ward
• The keep and forebuilding:
• The external elevations of the keep
• The external elevations of the forebuilding
• The keep interior:
• The ground floor
• The first floor
• The second floor and other features
• The third floor
• The parapet
• Discussion
• Queen Mary's Tower and the passage to the Dacre postern gate:
• The external elevations
• The internal layout of the tower
• The passage to the Dacre postern gate
• Discussion
• The Elizabethan or Governor's Range:
• The south elevation
• The west elevation
• Discussion
• The Regimental Museum:
• The external elevations
• The internal elevations
• Discussion
• The Magazine and the Militia Store
• Discussion
• 5 The buildings of the outer ward
• The Officers' Mess
• Ypres block
• Gallipoli block
• Arroyo block Arnhem block
• Alma block
• The Garrison Cells and Regimental Offices
• Section 2: the history of Carlisle castle from 1092 to 1962 by H R T Summerson
• 6 Early developments 1092-1217
• The Normans and their castles
• Henry I, David I, and the beginnings of building in stone
• Henry II and the re-ordering of Carlisle's defences
• Carlisle and the war of 1173-4
• Carlisle and the extension of royal control
• The reign of John and the siege of 1216
• 7 The castle from 1217-1296
• Recovery and renewal 1217-23
• Peaceful neglect 1223-56
• The report of c 1256 and the thirteenth-century castle
• Carlisle castle in the Barons' wars 1258-67
• The late thirteenth-century castle 1267-96
• 8 The castle from 1296-1378
• The beginnings of the Scottish wars 1296-1311
• The years of crisis 1311-23
• Neglect, decay, and uproar 1323-45
• Partial restoration 1346-78
• 9 Rebuilding and renewal 1377-1399
• The new gatehouse
• Other building works
• War and peace in the borders
• Techniques and workforce
• Organisation and finance
• 10 The period of Warden control 1399-1537
• The Percies and the Nevilles 1399-1426
• The period of Neville dominance
• Carlisle and the Wars of the Roses 1461-70
• The rule of Richard of Gloucester 1471-85
• The Wardenship of Thomas, Lord Dacre
• Carlisle castle in 1529
• Repair and rebellion 1529-37
• 11 The Tudor castle 1537-1603
• Modernisation and renovation 1537-50
• Renewed stagnation 1550-63
• The Certificate of Decays and the crisis of the late 1560s
• The Wardenship of Lord Scrope 1570-92
• The organisation of the sixteenth century works
• The Tudor castle, its functions and its occupants
• The last years of Tudor Carlisle 1592-1603
• 12 The seventeenth and early eighteenth century castle
• The union of the Crowns and its aftermath 1603-39
• The Civil Wars and Interregnum 1639-1660:
• 1639-1641
• 1642-1648
• 1648-1660
• The Restoration castle 1660-88:
• Reports and repairs
• Dissenters and Covenanters
• Carlisle Castle in the reign of Charles II
• The reign of James II and the Glorious Revolution
• Stagnation and Disuse 1688-1745
• 13 The castle between 1745 and 1815
• Carlisle and the '45
• Declining into picturesqueness 1746-1793
• Foreign war and civil disturbances 1793-1815
• 14 Radicalism and reconstruction, 1815-1848
• 1815-1820
• 1820-1831
• 1831-1837
• 1837-1848
• 15 1848 to 1988; from Regimental depot to ancient monument
• The mid Victorian castle
• Closure and preoccupation 1860-90
• The beginnings of dual control 1890-1918
• 'Preserving the amenities' 1918 -1962
• Appendix 1: selected documentary sources
• Appendix 2: list of pictorial sources, by D R Perriam
• Works referred to
• Bibliography
• Index