Bathrooms In Medieval Castles
There was no such thing as toilet paper.
Bathrooms in medieval castles. A hole in the bottom let everything just drop into a pit or the moat. Public bathing same. There were different ways both of bathing and of disposing of human waste used in castles of the middle ages.
Bathrooms so common in the classical world disappeared in medieval europe except in monasteries. Medieval castles in europe were fitted with private toilets known as garderobes example pictured above typically featuring stone seats above tall holes draining into moats. Medieval people bathed much more often than people of the renaissance and in many.
Baths were taken in transportable wooden tubs in summer the sun could warm the water and the bather. While some medieval civilizations did do those things some wealthier civilizations during the medieval times actually had plumbing or even indoor plumbing that s right the medieval times weren t as primitive as you thought. Generally in medieval times privacy was very hard to come by read below for a rather alarming description of communal medieval castle toilets and the lord and lady were granted the luxury of their own rooms usually at the top of one of the towers or the castle keep.
Renaissance baths and toilets. In a medieval castle a garderobe was usually a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit akin to a pit latrine or the moat like a fish pond toilet depending on the structure of the building. Communal latrines with many seats were installed in medieval british abbeys.
Medieval castles toilets latrines sanitation was very primitive in medieval castles. Nosebags smell the roses. Early latrines or garderobes would be sited close to the main bedchamber.
These rooms were generally referred to as solar chambers thought to derive from the words of solitude. Medieval toilets just as today were often referred to by a euphemism the most common being privy chamber. When they were finished the contents would be thrown over balcony out.
During the middle ages rich people built toilets called garderobes jutting out of the sides of their castles. Such toilets were often placed inside a small chamber leading by association to the use of the term garderobe to describe the rooms. Chamber pots were used by women to collect waste overnight.
Typically they would be built in to the outer wall with a long drop below to the moat or river. Except in certain circumstances baths were not required for ordinary people until victorian times cleanliness was fundamentally ungodly. The toilets of a castle were usually built into the walls so that they projected out on corbels and any waste.
