Honey (Was SC - Ice)
Lee-Gwen Booth
piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au
Thu May 25 06:31:59 PDT 2000
Hmmm....
I'm looking at the CADW (Welsh Historic Monuments) booklet on Caernarfon
and don't see anything that resembles a cooling room such as you
described...
In fact, the entire excerpt about the kitchens is as follows:
"To the west (right) of the King's Gate lies the lower ward. Note the
foundations of the broad wall which was intended to separate the two wards,
and of the buildings which formerly occupied the ward, concealing the lower
parts of the enclosing curtain walls. As you walk down towards the Eagle
Tower you will come first, on your right, to the site of the castle
kitchens, lying between the gatehouse and the Well Tower. The springer of
a great arch and bonding for a cross partition, both built as part of the
curtain wall, show that it was intended to build the whole in stone, but
the slight foundation walls on the courtyard side suggest that, as built,
these kitchens may have been relatively flimsy structures.
To the lift of the range of three rooms are the remains of seatings for
two copper cauldrons, with fireplaces below them. Behind them, in the
thickness of the tower wall, is a cavity which may have been used for
smoking meat. At the bottom of the wall on the right-hand side of this
cavity is a small hole marking the end of a water channel running from a
tank in the Well Tower, and below it is a drain running off to the left.
In the window openings at the back of the range there is the line of a
second channel, still bearing the remains of its lead piping, running from
the tower to a stone sink, now much weathered, mounted in a recess in the
wall about the middle of the range. In the wall below the great stone
springer, on the right, is the small opening for a rubbish disposal shaft
in the wall thickness. The accomodation at the right-hand end of these
apartments was of two storeys; a doorway in the curtain wall opens onto a
stair which served the upper room and the gatehouse."
by Arnold Taylor CBE, DLitt, FBA
(c) Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments
Brunel House, 2 Fitzalan Road, CARDIFF, CF2 1UY
I have also talked to a friend of mine who has been there and to a number
of other castles in north wales including Beaumaris, and he doesn't
remember anything like that.
I also checked the Cadw web site in case something had been discovered
since Jack was there and thus before the booklet he brought back was
published (http://www.castlewales.com/home.html) but I couldn't find
anything there either.
I would be interested to know exactly where you are getting this
information...
Alex Wollangk
(Bran MacDavid would know nothing of this kind of research... Though he
may very well have heard of Caernarfon...)
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