Windsor Castle, Windsor, England
This article is about the castle in Windsor. For other uses, see Windsor Castle (disambiguation). Windsor Castle Windsor, Berkshire in England Windsor Castle at Sunset - Nov Viewed from the Long Walk Windsor Castle is located in Berkshire Windsor Castle Windsor Castle Location within Berkshire Coordinates 51°29′0″N 000°36′15″WCoordinates: 51°29′0″N 000°36′15″W Type Three bailey wards with a round keep Site information Owner Queen Elizabeth II in right of the Crown Operator Royal Household Open to the public Limited access Site history In use Late 11th century – present Materials Bagshot Heath stone Events First Barons' War, English Civil War [show] v · t · e First Barons' War Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is notable for its long association with the English and later British royal family and for its architecture. The original castle was built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I, it has been used by all monarchs, and is the longest-occupied palace in Europe. The castle's lavish early 19th-century State Apartments were described by the art historian Hugh Roberts as "a superb and unrivalled sequence of rooms widely regarded as the finest and most complete expression of later Georgian taste".[1] Inside the castle walls is the 15th-century St George's Chapel, considered by the historian John Martin Robinson to be "one of the supreme achievements of English Perpendicular Gothic" design.[2] Originally designed to protect Norman dominance around the outskirts of London and oversee a strategically important part of the River Thames, Windsor Castle was built as a motte-and-bailey, with three wards surrounding a central mound. Gradually replaced with stone fortifications, the castle withstood a prolonged siege during the First Barons' War at the start of the 13th century. Henry III built
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