Talk:Banwell Castle

A fact from Banwell Castle appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 April 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Banwell Castle served as Area Headquarters for the barrage balloon section of the Royal Air Force during World War II?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/April.

Wikipedia

Somerset Low‑importance

	Somerset portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Somerset, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Somerset on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SomersetWikipedia:WikiProject SomersetTemplate:WikiProject SomersetSomerset articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Historic sites Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Historic sites, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of historic sites on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Historic sitesWikipedia:WikiProject Historic sitesTemplate:WikiProject Historic sitesHistoric sites articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Re: doubtful architect attributions

The bed and breakfast website seems to be the source for an asserted connection with Augustus Pugin, who is the only "household name" in C19 Gothic Revival; nevertheless, National Monmuments Record/ English Heritage quite specifically says "Despite date and quality of design, architect not known." Does Banwell appear in any of the books on Pugin's career? "Sir Elskin Baker" does not fetch up at GoogleScholar nor at JSTOR, which pretty well covers the professional literature. I tried the more recognizable "Elkins" and "Elkin". Is this a misprint from Jonathan Holt, Somerset Follies, 2007:6?--Wetman (talk) 00:17, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've checked Holt & the spelling is as given. The specific sentence is "Banwell Castle was embellished by later owners, particularly sir Elskin Baker in the 1880s." I did get the Pugin attribution from the castle's own history page & a quick search doesn't find any other support - should I remove that claim?— Rod ^talk 07:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not a folly?

Why not? There was no use for a castle in the 19th century, therefore it would appear to be a folly. Gatoclass (talk) 10:50, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's only really a "castle" in the sense that Castle Howard is a castle. In fact it is something of a Gothic revival cross between something like Beaulieu Palace House and Windsor Castle, noting that the current vision of the latter is a creation of the same period and impulse that created Banwell Castle. There are a number of manorial houses in England of the same ilk, some old and some Victorian and even Edwardian. Mangoe (talk) 16:25, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 7 external links on Banwell Castle. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:19, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]