Lindisfarne Castle For your safety

• Please be aware of your surroundings in this cosy castle, with its narrow passageways and low doorways. • Please keep right as you go around the castle. You will find directions as you go or in the floor plan included in this guide. • Hand sanitiser stations are located at key points throughout. • Please take care not to touch any historic surfaces as these are difficult to sanitise without damage.

Lindisfarne Castle’s origins go back to the old borderlands, and a time of religious and political upheaval. From the 1550s up until 1893 the castle was garrisoned by the government, at one point mounting 21 cannon. The castle was strategically vital during the Scottish Wars of the mid- 1500s and later saw action in the Civil Wars and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Edward Hudson of Country Life magazine took on the lease in 1901, and engaged the architect Edwin Lutyens to refurbish the castle to meet his taste. The castle today is the result of this collaboration and some of Lutyens’ designs remain the castle’s most significant features. The Lower Battery The guns on the Lower Battery protected the entrance to Holy Island harbour. The remaining gun emplacements date from the 1860s. The Entrance Hall Renovated in 1912 by Lutyens, with columns to imitate the nave of Durham Cathedral. The columns ‘grow’ out of the floor, part of Lutyens’ theme of the castle being part of the crag. Lutyens extended the hall in to part of the old kitchen, giving the room symmetry. When the work was finished, Hudson had his initials embossed on the fireplace with the date 1912. This curious object is an Aumbry, and would have been made in the 1600s for a church in what is now Belgium. It was brought to the castle by Edward Hudson. The Kitchen There has been a Kitchen in this space since at least 1742. The wall paintings above the scullery door were discovered in 2017 and date to the late 1600s The present Kitchen dates from about 1912. It later would become the domain of the housekeepers Jack and Hannah Lilburn. The Scullery is simple, functional room but is full of original features. The mechanism controls the portcullis at the front door. The Dining Room Originally the castle’s kitchen, the Tudor period fireplace still survives including a bread oven and salt hole. Hudson would entertain his guests in here, often with champagne, lobsters, and one of his signature long speeches. The window was completed replaced in the 2017 project, based on Lutyens’ original drawing. The Ship Room

The Ship Room used to be three separate spaces, including one of the castle’s two gunpowder magazines.

©National Archives By the 1850s it had been opened out. In 1904 Lutyens began converting it into the castle’s Drawing Room.

©Duke of Northumberland The fireplace was rebuilt and the room furnished as a comfortable sitting room, and of course the model ship was hung from the ceiling. The Long Gallery The Long Gallery was built in 1904 to join the two buildings of the old fort together. Prior to that, this space was open to the elements. The doorway to the two bedrooms was added in 1912. The North Bedrooms The second part of Heinrich & Palmer’s installation; Storm in a tea cup, Water Margin, and Seabed The three North Bedrooms were added in the summer of 1912. They occupy the former Queen’s Battery, which was intended to mount guns facing north, but probably never did. ©National Archives The Upper Gallery For centuries this was a storeroom, but later seems to have served as both a servants dormitory and a second drawing room. Probably the most notable use of the room was for cellist Madame Suggia to perform concerts on the small stage. The Upper Battery The Upper Battery commands panoramic views of the sea and Northumberland coast, and at one point mounted 11 cannon.

©Duke of Northumberland Features visible from the battery on a clear day include the Farne Islands, Bamburgh Castle, the Cheviot Hills, Berwick upon Tweed, and the two navigation beacons opposite the castle.