Originally Posted by
ChrisGeorge
Hi Waterways
My point is that from those views you don't get the inside details of what the castle looked like, you only see it from a distance and usually from the water. This is why one of the references on the castle is entitled, E.W. Cox, 1892, 'An Attempt to Recover the Plans of the Castle of Liverpool from Authentic records; Considered in Connection with Medieval Principles of Defence and Construction,'
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Vol42 p195-254 [map, plans, diag]
Mr Cox's investigation resulted in the conjectural detailed drawing seen at the top of Mike Royden's page on the castle
http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/castle/castle.htm
E W Cox's article is very interesting for the material it reproduces, but his reconstruction of the whole castle (shown in the colour perspective aerial-view, and accompanied in the article by floor plans and elevations) is impossibly detailed given how little information survived, and how contradictory much of the information is. There was a model based on this reconstruction at Croxteth Hall in the early 1980s, and Cox's work was the basis of the reconstruction at Rivington built c.1910-1920 at the expense of Lord "Port Sunlight" Leverhulme (the replica is a full-size, not scaled-down, recreation, but was never finished because of Leverhulme's death and is rather prone to vandalism, but it's well worth making the trip out to Bolton to see)
Gareth
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