Curzon, now Lord Curzon, bought another castle in 1917 – Bodiam in Sussex, and again Weir was the Architect appointed to oversee its repair.
When the castle was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1925, Weir was appointment architect to the Management Committee. In December 1925, Weir produced a report for the Trust which detailed all the works which had been carried out in 1919 to 1920, which included: emptying the moat of mud, facing and repointing the curtain wall, the causeway, the octagonal platform and the two abutments on the banks of the moat, clearing vegetation, and rebedding loose masonry. Roofs and floors were also repair or reconstructed where necessary.
The excavations at the castle site turned up various objects which were put in a small museum at the castle for which Weir provided exhibition lists. Objects he listed include scissors, sword hilts, a shoulder piece from a suit of armour, a letter writing tray, a wood chisel made of steel, a spear, horseshoes, pieces of glass presumably from the castle windows, animal jaw bones, pottery, cannon balls, an oxon yolk, and tiles.
In the end, Weir was associated with the castle for twenty years.
Image: photograph of Bodiam Castle with scaffolding taken during the repair work 1919/1920.
