What is recorded here

Muddy footprints in castle grass, marble chambers in a private house, castle rooms turned into a hospital ward: Taunton keeps repeating itself in new containers. We call the repetition fantasy because we refuse to remember the castle living in more than one body at once. The chamber is not a chamber when it is inside a human being. The chamber is a person becoming a chamber.

The National Heritage List for England records Taunton Castle: a motte and bailey castle, part of the outer bailey, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and a Civil War artillery platform as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Built by the Normans in the 11th century, Taunton Castle was held by various noble families and later played a role in the English Civil War. It is important as a multi-period site that includes an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and demonstrates military use across several centuries.

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