What was the name of the bathroom in a medieval castle?

Answer 1

There were different ways both of bathing and of disposing of human waste used in castles of the Middle Ages.

Medieval people bathed much more often than people of the Renaissance, and in many places, a settlement was more likely to have a public bath house than it was to have a permanent marketplace. Some of the bath houses were inherited from the Romans, but in general medieval people used wooden tubs. These could be set up almost anywhere, and did not require special rooms for bathing.

One way of dealing with human waste was to use latrine ditches. Another was to use night pots, which were emptied outside regularly. Some castles had "toilets" which had long shoots emptying in a chamber for receiving it at a lower level, and from which it could be removed regularly. Others had similar shoots going to moats or rivers.

Bodiam Castle, which was built in 1385 and is in East Essex, had 28 "toilets" all emptying into a very large moat. Since various aquatic life forms consume excrement, and the moat was very large, it is possible there was no bad smell bad from this, but the water was clearly unsanitary. There is a link to an article on Bodiam castle below.

In those days, people were clean, but they had no idea how diseases were spread. Most people thought diseases were carried by bad air and smell.

Answer 2

A medieval bathroom was simply a chute through the outer wall of the castle.

Answer 3

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