Bungay Castle
Bungay Castle is a castle in the town of Bungay in the English county of Suffolk on the banks of the River Waveney .
history
Originally there was a Norman castle at this point , which Roger Bigod had built around 1100. The location was favorable, as a bend in the Waverney River provided shelter for the castle. Roger Bigod's son Hugh was a well-known figure during the civil war years of anarchy , and his loyalty was questioned during the early years of King Henry II's reign . Heinrich confiscated Bungay Castle, but returned it to Hugh Bigod in 1164. In the following year he had a large, rectangular Norman donjon built. There is no record of how expensive the donjon was to build, but Hugh Brown , who oversaw the castle excavations in the 1930s, estimated it would have been around £ 1,400. Hugh Bigod was among the losers in the 1173–1174 revolt . Bungay Castle was besieged, undermined and eventually destroyed by royal troops.
The property was subsequently returned to the Bigods and rebuilt by Roger Bigod in 1294 , which presumably resulted in the massive castle gate towers. Roger Bigod fell out with King Edward I and after his death Bungay Castle fell to the crown again. As a result, the castle fell into ruin. From 1483 it belonged to the Dukes of Norfolk for most of the time until the 20th century.
today
The restoration of the castle began in 1934 after the amateur archaeologist Leonard Cane had already carried out work. The curtain wall and the twin towers of the gatehouse are preserved to this day, as are fragments of the donjon . Bungay Castle was given to the city of Bungay by the Duke of Norfolk and is now owned by the Bungay Castle Trust , which also manages it. The castle is classified by Historic England as historically significant: the structural remains are classified as a Listed Building of Category I , the entire complex including the outdoor facilities as a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Adrian Pettifer: English Castles: A Guide by Counties . Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2002, ISBN 0-85115-782-3 , pp. 232 (English, 384 p., Limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Bungay Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
- ^ Hugh Brown: Bungay Castle, report on the excavations in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archeology and History . Issue 22. 1935. p. 217. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Visiting Bungay Castle . Bungay, Suffolk . Retrieved April 16, 2015.
- ↑ Entry in the list of listed properties on the Historic England website, accessed April 19, 2019. (English)
- ↑ Entry in the list of listed properties on the Historic England website, accessed April 19, 2019. (English)
literature
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles , David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 1 ° 26 ′ 12.1 ″ E