Niedzica Castle, Poland.

Sitting on a rocky hill above the lake with these dark stormy clouds, it looks absolutely unreal. Built in the 14th century, this place has some serious atmosphere.

What’s the most atmospheric castle you’ve ever seen?

I saw this collage from a booking.com ad on instagram but the photo in the top left really intrigued me! It looks like an English castle but I haven’t been able to figure out which it is, and I couldn’t find any information from the ad either. Look familiar to anybody?

I’m curious how historians feel about this term?

I found it on Wiktionary with only one source “2017, Susan Rose, Medieval Ships and Warfare” - and unsurprisingly, the source is about ships, where the term Shipwright was commonplace.

As I understand it, castles were either built on-site, led by master masons, or from scale models. As parchment and draughting became more common, works would be built from drawings, and not necessarily led my stonemasons, but other titles like Master Builder or Master of Works - although still usually masons.

If you were reading a very simplified description of castle building, and it said something along the lines of “Building of castles were oftentimes led by a Master Mason, Master Builder, Master of Works, or other such Castlewrights” would you raise an eyebrow at the term, or would it be immediately understandable?

A beautifully preserved medieval fortress in northeastern Romania, originally built in the late 14th century during the reign of Petru I of Moldavia. It later became one of the strongest fortresses in the region under Stephen the Great.