Mouse's top three #InterestingThingsAtGoodrich Number 3: The Norman keep. Build of grey conglomerate and with pilaster strips, clasping buttresses, sawtooth moulding and Romanesque windows it's an amazing survivor #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichKeep

More classic Romanesque for #RomanesqueRiday. Missing pier from 2-light window. But look closely, both jambs and string course have saw tooth decoration yet this is the third stage of the tower and barely visible from the ground with the naked eye #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichCasle #GoodrichKeep

A little something for #RomanesqueRiday. Perfect 2-light Norman Romanesque window with circular headed lights and central cylindrical pier set in a circular headed 'frame'. An archetype #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichCastle #GoodrichKeep

Fairly authentic looking gates to the basement level of #GoodrichKeep #Thursgate #IronworkThursday #HeidiAtGoodrich

Imagine how dark it is down here when the door closes....

The basement level #GoodrichCastle keep. Mouse do not like it. Mouse do not like it at all (look at the step wear BTW. 800 years of footfall #TowerTuesday #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichKeep: A thread part VI of VI

Looking up from first to third stage of the #GoodrichCastle keep (redundant corbels of the second stage, left) #TowerTuesday #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichKeep: A thread part V of VI

Like many if not most keeps in defended castles the entrance was at the second stage. The entrance was moved to ground level and by the look of the arch shape in the new doorway in C15 #TowerTuesday #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichKeep: A thread part IV of VI (oops mouse started this with 11, by accident)

Dated to late C12 (after the appearance of Early English) the keep of #GoodrichCastle remained solidly Norman Romanesque. Strip pilasters (as clasping pilasters at corners) and circular-headed openings #TowerTuesday #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichKeep: A thread part III of XI

The keep of #GoodrichCastle (centre) is grey and contrasts strongly with the red sandstone of the other structures (except it would appear in this light) #TowerTuesday #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichKeep: A thread part II of XI

The oldest existing part of #GoodrichCastle. The keep, flanked by south-west and south-east towers, now largely ruinous. Three stage and basement with a single space on each floor #TowerTuesday #HeidiAtGoodrich #GoodrichKeep: A thread part I of XI