Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd' has mentioned 'Castles' in the following places:
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| He created new fortified towns, protected by castles, in which English immigrants could settle and administer the territories. | WIKI |
| By the end of the 17th century, however, the castles were ruinous. | WIKI |
| The location of castles such as Caernarfon and Conwy were chosen for their political significance as well as military functions, being built on top of sites belonging to the Welsh princes. | WIKI |
| The castles incorporated luxury apartments and gardens, with the intention of supporting large royal courts in splendour. | WIKI |
| The castles were key military centres, but were also designed to function as royal palaces, capable of supporting the king and queen's households in secure comfort. | WIKI |
| [23] The castles were entrusted by Edward to constables, charged to defend them and, in some cases, also empowered to defend the town walls as well. | WIKI |
| The castles were each equipped with a rear or postern gate that would allow them to resupplied directly by sea even if the town had fallen. | WIKI |
| [32] Edward had meanwhile become embroiled in a long-running sequence of wars in Scotland which began to consume his attention and financial resources, and as a result further work on the Welsh castles slowed to a crawl. | WIKI |
| Maintaining the castles proved challenging, and they rapidly fell into disrepair. | WIKI |
| The money given to the castle constables to enable them to maintain and garrison the castles had not been generous to start with, but the sums provided declined considerably during the 14th century. | WIKI |
| [36] By 1321 a survey reported that Conwy was poorly equipped, with limited stores and suffering from leaking roofs and rotten timbers, and in the 1330s, Edward III was advised that none of the castles were in fit state to host the royal court should he visit the region. | WIKI |
| As a result, the Edwardian castles became less important. | WIKI |
| In the aftermath of the war, Parliament ordered the slighting of castles across the country, deliberately destroying or damaging the structures to prevent them being used in any subsequent Royalist uprisings. | WIKI |
| In 1660 Charles II was restored to the throne and ownership of the castles changed once again. | WIKI |
| [68] In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the ruined castles started to be considered picturesque and sublime, attracting visitors and artists from across a wide area. | WIKI |
| [81] In the late 20th century, detailed reconstructions of the castles were painted by historical artists including Terry Ball, John Banbury and Ivan Lapper. | WIKI |
| [85] Cadw expanded the interpretation provided at the sites to give more emphasis to the impact of the creation of the castles on the native Welsh, and the role of the Welsh princes in the events leading up to the 1282 invasion itself. | WIKI |
| The castles were much larger than they needed to be in order to protect against Welsh attack, but the sheer scale of them meant that the Crown could not afford to maintain or garrison them properly. | WIKI |
| Each of the castles was designed to be suitable to support the royal court, should it visit. | WIKI |
| [98] When built, the castles would have been more colourful than today, in keeping with the fashions of the 13th century. | WIKI |
| The castles made a clear, imperial statement about Edward's intentions to rule North Wales on a permanent basis. | WIKI |
| [107] Similarities include the semi-circular door arches, window styles, corbelled towers, the positioning of putlog holes, tall circular towers and crenellations with pinnacles found in Edward's works in North Wales; in Savoy these can be seen in constructions such as the defences of Saillon, La Bxc3xa2tiaz and Chillon Castles. | WIKI |
| The castles as a stylistically coherent group are a supreme example of medieval military architecture designed and directed by James of St George (c. 1230-1309), King Edward I of Englandxe2x80x99s chief architect, and the greatest military architect of the age. | UNESCO |
| The extensive and detailed contemporary technical, social, and economic documentation of the castles, and the survival of adjacent fortified towns at Caernarfon and Conwy, makes them one of the major references of medieval history. | UNESCO |
| The individual castles possess a high degree of integrity with the coherence of their planning, innovative design and quality of construction being undiminished. | UNESCO |
| Potential threats could come from unsympathetic development on the town/landward side of the castles, but also from coastal or off-shore development within the setting of the castles. | UNESCO |
| There is a need to protect the setting of the castles to ensure their relationship with their hinterland remains undiminished. | UNESCO |
| The plans, form, materials and component features of the castles are largely unaltered. | UNESCO |
| The overall setting of the four castles remains largely intact xe2x80x93 with the exception of development on the plain at Harlech and some new development at Caernarfon xe2x80x93 and thus they retain their ability to present very clearly their scale, defensive power and intimidating presence. | UNESCO |
| These measures combine to ensure that the Castles are subject to rigorous controls over development that could potentially impact upon them or their setting. | UNESCO |