Images, left to right: Windsor castle from the Thames; entrance gatehouse; round tower and St. George’s gate; St. George’s chapel (photos C.A. Stanford)
Acquired: 1509 (by inheritance)
The castle and the manor of Windsor were separate but jointly managed properties. The castle, a fortified residence from the days of William the Conqueror, contained royal lodgings newly constructed in the Tudor period. These have since been swept away by rebuilding and their exact location is uncertain. Windsor is a vast and complex palimpsest of structures that still houses the royal family and allows tourists to visit the state rooms and St. George’s chapel within its walls.
The manor, which lay to the south and was primarily a hunting preserve under Henry VIII, contained a hunting lodge that was primarily occupied by keepers of the park. This lodge had disappeared by the seventeenth century and its exact location is now unknown.
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