Bridgnorth Castle
Bridgnorth Castle is a ruined castle in the town of Bridgnorth in the English county of Shropshire on the banks of the River Severn .
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The castle was built by Robert of Bellême , the son of the French nobleman Roger de Montgomerie , who succeeded his father as Earl of Shrewsbury . Its main structure, a large residential tower with a square floor plan, was built during the reign of Henry II.
During the English Civil War , Bridgnorth was one of the royalist strongholds in the Midlands and in 1642 large royalist troops were located at the castle. In 1646 parliamentary troops arrived in Bridgnorth, who had been ordered by Oliver Cromwell to take the town and castle from the garrison led by Sir Robert Howard . After a three week siege, the Roundheads were successful and Cromwell ordered the castle's demolition. Little was left of the building until 1647. The parliamentarians largely left the ruins as they can be seen today. Only building blocks for repairing war-damaged houses in the city were still removed.
Parts of the residential tower are still preserved today, but due to the damage from the English Civil War, they are four times as inclined as the Tower of Pisa with an inclination of 15 ° . The archaeological television series Time Team carried out three days of excavations in the castle grounds to clarify the construction of the castle and the history of its construction.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bridgnorth Castle . ShropshireTourism.co.uk. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ Henry Manners Chichester: Robert Howard (1585-1653) . In: Dictionary of National Biography. 1885-1900. Band 28 . Retrieved December 18, 2015.
- ^ A b The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth, Shropshire . Time team. Episode aired on March 18, 2001. Accessed May 2010.
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- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '53 " N , 2 ° 25' 12.4" W.