Editing Kenilworth Castle (section)

===Base, left-hand and right-hand courts===
[[File:Kenilworth Castle4.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Leicester's gatehouse, built by Robert Dudley in a deliberately anachronistic style]]
The rest of Kenilworth Castle's interior is divided into three areas: the base court, stretching between Mortimer's Tower and Leicester's gatehouse; the left-hand court, stretching south-west around the outside of the inner court; and the right-hand court, to the north-west of the inner court.<ref name="Morris 2010, p.6.">Morris 2010, p.6.</ref> The line of trees that cuts across the base court today is a relatively modern mid-19th century addition, and originally this court would have been more open, save for the [[Collegiate church|collegiate chapel]] that once stood in front of the stables.<ref name="Morris 2010, p.6."/> Destroyed in 1524, only the chapel's foundations remain.<ref>Morris 2010, p.29.</ref> Each of the courts was designed to be used for different purposes: the base court was considered a relatively public area, with the left and right courts used for more private occasions.<ref>Morris 2010, p.24.</ref>

Leicester's gatehouse was built on the north side of the base court, replacing an older gatehouse to provide a fashionable entrance from the direction of [[Coventry]].<ref>Morris 2010, p.26.</ref> The external design, with its symbolic towers and, originally, battlements, echoes a style popular a century or more before, closely resembling [[Kirby Muxloe Castle|Kirby Muxloe]] and the Beauchamp gatehouse at [[Warwick Castle]].<ref>Johnson 2000, p.233; Morris 2010, p.26, 47.</ref> By contrast the interior, with its contemporary wood panelling, is in the same, highly contemporary Elizabethan fashion of Leicester's building in the inner court.<ref name="Johnson 2000, p.233.">Johnson 2000, p.233.</ref> Leicester's gatehouse is one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built by [[John Dudley]] in the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court.<ref>Morris 2010, p.28.</ref> The stable block is a large building built mostly in stone, but with a timber-framed, decoratively panelled first storey designed in an anachronistic, vernacular style.<ref>Morris 2010, p.28; Johnson 2000, p.224.</ref> Both buildings could have easily been seen from Leicester's building and were therefore on permanent display to visitors.<ref name=JohnsonStokstadP226/> Leicester's intent may have been to create a deliberately anachronistic view across the base court, echoing the older ideals of chivalry and romance alongside the more modern aspects of the redesign of the castle.<ref name=JohnsonStokstadP226>Johnson 2000, p.226; Stokstad, p.80.</ref>