Northampton Castle - Virtual Tour

[@whiskeyfoxpix]

Loved seeing this. The castle was built under the stewardship of my 26th Great Grandfather Simon DeSenlis, the Earl of Northhampton.

[@NorthamptonCastle]

+Will Fay Are you the keeper of the family history? We would be fascinated to hear from you about Simon de Senlis. We are trying to build up stories around the characters who were part of the Castle's history and Simon was certainly a significant figure.

[@semw52]

@@NorthamptonCastle he is my x24 great grandfather and first husband of Matilda of Huntingdon

[@bobjackson4720]

Interesting and very well done. England had so many castles in it's history.

[@HTaff-gv1nm]

This is fantastic. I find it heartbreaking that Northampton has left the castle as just a memory. I would definitely like to get more involved with the FONC and learn more.

[@37mnc37]

Wonderful - it brought the place properly to life. Thank you.

[@stevehancock5082]

Was soooo pleased to see this and find out more. Thanks. Now a kind of history guide book should be done as if it was still here, which I wish it was. Many thanks, appreciated!

[@mikehumphreys2541]

Loved this video, just shows how much history there is in town, if you only take the time to look. Thanks guys.

[@lyndapinfold8796]

Thank you for that, have always been fascinated by the castle, wondering what it was like

[@v.inc88]

Really cool. I was getting a bit motion sick watching this though.

[@steveharris7938]

See even back then they were demolishing significant buildings in Northampton ;)

[@GodTierComments]

Thank you so much for this! Just one error I found at 9:40 where you say 1390 = Edward III.

[@NorthamptonCastle]

Hi Lynda - we are so glad you enjoyed the tour. We are just about to release a new interactive walkthrough to the Castle's Great Hall. Please look out for information on our website and please do come along to our next meeting. We will be meeting in January - not our usual first Friday - but the second Friday in the month.

[@Lastindependentthinker]

Not mentioned. It was also used as an Assizes or circuit court.

[@d.mfrost6801]

Just come across this, it seems you can find anything on KZbin, ......thanks

[@mateoglumac728]

There are many wrong things in this reconstruction. The barbican would need at least portcullises to slow the attackers. It would be off-side to the entrance because its main purpose is to prevent enemy to get a battering ram to the door. There is no entrance to the barbican so I do not see how would solders get in it to protect it and its 3 entrenches are a missed opportunity to put arrow loops on the side to kill off the enemy. Murder holes were placed in it but it wouldn't be enough to defend it. Also the main entrance would have a door on it and one or two portcullises to trap the attacking troops underneath murder holes. And also another door would be on the other side of the doorway. Postern-gate would be put into the gateway and made out of tick wood and metal mash and guarded better by the adjacent tower. Many castles fell when the enemy breached postern-gate. And in the common bailey there would be a firewood storage and a loot of it and also granary and stables. Towers and rooms in them would have doors because people would have to live in them. NO TREBUCHETS on top of the walls. Towers are made out of stone wall and wooden floors so they wouldn't be able to cope with stress of firing a trebuchet. And also you expose your weapon that you can not replace to enemy fire. You would put it behind the wall. And tower you call a barbican in at 4:45 is not a barbican. Its a gatehouse. AND NO STONE FLOORS. I have no problem with inner bailey but the keep should have machicolations and arrow loops on it to improve its field of fire. What is with the wooden floors and stone supports in the keep? It makes no sense. ROOFs, we need roofs on buildings people live in or the rain would seep through.

[@tris7]

Great video!

[@davidfleming5233]

Spark light keeps thinking it's summer not a cold freezing fall

[@mrseedjnr]

great video thank you

[@Fjcc1971]

Amazing !!

[@KennyWalkington]

Interesting !

[@beauregard8511]

Good job on this.

[@raedwald-red]

9:42 ""... from 1390 onwards during the reign of Edward III."" Rather a miraculous event given that Edward III died in 1377! I think the writer meant Richard III (until he was deposed in 1399).

[@henryvagincourt]

Raed Wald + Richard II, though it's already been mentioned in the comments some time ago.

[@ashnunya314]

This was cool

[@ivormarkman]

Very disappointed that you left out one of the most tragic events in English history in an otherwise excellent production. I am referring to the massacre of Jews by the Barons' forces in 1264. Records are few but estimates of the death toll vary between 50 and 500.

[@armaanmalkani]

wHo CaME fRoM ScHOoL? cuZ i diD!

[@ashin-9]

i did, lmao.

[@castellddu]

Yea gods. Have any one concerned with this read a book on castles written in the last hundred years! So much of the content is fanciful but the pouring boiling oil on attackers nonsense hasn't been suggested by anyone who know anything about castles ever! There is almost nothing correct about the reconstruction. The architectural forms owe more to the Victorian reconstruction of Newcastle castle great tower than to any medieval building. One could go on but this important castle site really does deserve better than this. The friends of the castle should not patronise the general public by feeding this populist pap from a 1950s schoolboys annual and shouldn't be afraid of challenging people with the, sometimes, difficult ideas of how castles functioned as psychological and sociological symbols of royal power.

[@ashin-9]

timestamp for outer ward (outer bailey)?

[@NorthamptonCastle]

Hello Ashley - not sure what your question is here. But the evidence we have is for a Castle including outer bailey dating from post the Domesday Book ( so not an invasion castle), then we have the odd legal record of land purchase by the purchase by King's as they developed it into a Royal Palce. We have estimated buiding therefore around 1100 -1130. That having been said it is quite possible that there was an earlier fortification dating from pre Norman Conquest. There is still some aercheological investigation to be done.

[@geoffreycarter2686]

Shame the commentary seems to think that Edward III was still king in 1390!

[@NorthamptonCastle]

+Geoffrey Carter You know, we spent so long going back and forth with the wording of the commentary, but we were bound to miss something! How embarrassing. Ah well, hopefully our upcoming immersive virtual tour will stand up a little better. Thanks!

[@Bama5000]

“Progress”

[@timothysmith8300]

That railway station is a freaking fish tank should have kept the original railway station the present one is an insult to the town looks like a fish tank.

[@arsenarsen6450]

Смбатаберд Киликия великая

[@itkapatanka]

Thanks Victorians for destroying what was left of the castle.

[@NorthamptonCastle]

Yes its sad that the railway company over came local objections and demolished the ruins of our Castle. But there is the opportunity to tell the story of the castle and to make sure that archaeology of the Castle left on the east side of St Andrews Rd above the railway station gets treated with respect. So lets keep making the case.