Talk:Herstmonceux Castle

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"oldest significant brick building in England" I find this hard to believe -- 1441 is not all that old.--dunnhaupt 01:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I've toned this down. Partly, it depends on what is meant by "significant". The Building Materials introduction to Pevsner's Sussex describes HC as "one of the earliest really ambitious brick structures in England". It's certainly later than Cow Tower, Norwich (1378) and the North Bar in Beverley (1410), but they aren't as ambitious.
It also says (under Herstmonceux) "though occasionally brick had appeared in England throughout the Middle Ages, it became fashionable only at exactly the moment of Herstmonseux. Contemporary examples of similar scale in other counties are Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire, Caister Castle in Norfolk and Faulkbourne [Hall] in Essex." They all seem to be smaller than Herstmonceux, and Caister is in ruins.
The earliest use of brick for buildings in England seems to have been around 1300, e.g. part of Holy Trinity Church, Hull. --GuillaumeTell 19:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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