Rochester Castle (English Heritage Red Guides)
By Jeremy Ashbee.
Description
'Descended towards Rochester...with its square ghastly walls and their hollow eyes, rising over a bank of the Medway, grey and massive and floorless; nothing remaining but the shell.' The gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe, writing in her journal, 1 September 1797. Rochester Castle stands within the walls of the Roman city above the river Medway in Kent. There has been an important crossing of the road to London since the first century AD, and it was the Normans - as they advanced across the country from the south coast, building strongholds from which to exert their power over the loc...
ISBN(s)
1848020929, 9781848020924
