Style [Inspiration] Tarbeck Hall

[IronGentleGiant]

Yesterday after wandering around Castamere, I was wondering about Tarbeck Hall which had risen up in rebellion with the Reynes of Castamere against their Lannister overlord. I warped to Tarbeck Hall and found no ruins nor anything there and wondered why that was so I asked. I think it was Emoticone11 that stated it was not yet built or not even in planning. So I decided to research it and found that there was a nonagon shaped central tower with a tower on each point and a great hall underneath and flanked by 9 towers connected by a curtain wall and surrounded by moat with palisade on the outer rim.

How did I find that out?

I researched Tarbeck name meaning and found out it could be pronounced Tarbock. Then I researched anything reminiscent of a Tarbock hall. Found out there was a hall owned by the Lathom Family in Lancashire and that it was similar to Lathom hall. So, I researched Lathom hall. Finally, I found the castlestudiestrust.org site that described how Lathom Hall looked in the medieval era. There are poems, parliamentary records, copper plated engravings, drawings, and old maps in this survey.

http://castlestudiestrust.org/docs/Lathom-House-Stones-Report-6-December-2017.pdf

Apparently is was a important castle in northwest england as it was placed along a strategic point.

Hopefully some of you all can use this as inspiration for building Tarbeck hall when any of you decide to build it.

 

[Enah]

That’s a cool thing but where do you get the castle description from? Can you show us the links to the research?

 

[IronGentleGiant]

For that you have to read the survey.

http://castlestudiestrust.org/docs/Lathom-House-Stones-Report-6-December-2017.pdf

Note that in 1725 at the bottom of page 7 it describes that the site of the castle and its towers were levelled and rebuilt into a palladian mansion.

On page 5 under the year 1513 a ballad describes it with nine towers on the central keep surrounded by nine towers on the outer wall and the ability to accompany three kings (or Lords):

‘Nyne towers thou bearest on hye,
And other nyne thou bearest in the utter walles
Within may be lodged kynges three’

From page 6 to 7 under the year 1640s a Chaplain Samuel Rutter describes how it looked. The first part from his description states:

a flat, upon moorish, springy and spumous ground, and was encompassed with a strong wall of two yards thick; upon the walls were nine towers, flanking each other, and in every tower were six pieces of ordnance, that played three one way, three the other: without the wall was a moat eight yards wide, and two yards deep; upon the back of the moat, between the wall and the grass, was a strong row of palisades around. Besides all these there was a high, strong tower, called the Eagle Tower, in the midst of the house, surmounting all the rest; and the gate-house also had two high and strong buildings, with a strong tower on each side of it

At the top of page 8 under the year 1825 Baines describes it (from uncertain sources) during Henry VII's visit in 1495:

'eighteen towers, nine in the outer and as many in the inner wall, the whole surmounted by a deep fosse, eight yards wide and two deep, immediately within which, and beyond the drawbridge, was a strong gateway, and in the centre a lofty tower, called the Eagle Tower'

At the bottom of page 13 a description of the castle are depicted on metal plating taken from nearby Churches:

On page 14 Jennifer Lewis sketched a reconstruction of the castle's towers:


In the following pages it describes how the castle is similar to Caernarvon Castle in Wales.

 

[Enah]

No, I meant for the Tarbecks...

 

[IronGentleGiant]

Tarbock hall (Tarbeck Hall) was owned by the Lathom Family and Tarbock hall is apparently similar to the medieval version of the Lathom Hall. So I researched Lathom Hall to see what it looked like. Lathom Hall is not Tarbeck hall but Tarbeck hall might have looked like Lathom Hall.