Barnwell Castle

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The castle ruins can be seen in the middle of the photo.

Barnwell Castle is a ruined castle south of the town Oundle and west of the village Barnwell in the English county of Northamptonshire . It has been listed as a Grade I Historic Building by English Heritage and is a Scheduled Monument .

A moth was erected in 1132. The stone castle was owned by the Berengar le Moyne family during the reign of King Henry III. to build. During the English Civil War , the castle served its owner, Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton , as an arsenal for the royalist cause. After the war, the Montagu family built a large mansion , Barnwell Manor , next to the castle.

Large parts of the castle have been preserved. Its floor plan is four-sided and it has cylindrical towers on the northeast, northwest and southwest corners. On the southeast corner is a gatehouse with two towers. The walls are up to 9 meters high and over 3.6 meters thick.

The castle ruins are privately owned and not accessible to the public.

literature

  • Patrick Montague-Smith, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd: The Country Life Book of Royal Palaces, Castles & Homes. Including Vanished Palaces and Historic Houses with Royal Connections. Country Life Books, London 1981, ISBN 0-600-36808-4 , pp. 77-78.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barnwell Castle (listing) . In: The National Heritage List for England . English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 1, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / list.english-heritage.org.uk
  2. ^ Barnwell Castle (SAM) . In: The National Heritage List for England . English Heritage. 2011. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 1, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / list.english-heritage.org.uk
  3. ↑ Barnwell Castle . ecastles.co.uk. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ Barnwell Castle on east-northantsonline.co.uk ( Memento from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Barnwell Castle . CastleUK.net. Archived from the original on January 10, 2008. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Plantagenet Somerset Fry: David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980, ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 , p. 184.

Web links

Commons : Barnwell Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '20.3 ​​"  N , 0 ° 27' 38.2"  W.