Bury Castle (Greater Manchester)
Bury Castle is a medieval manor house with a moat in the English administrative division of Greater Manchester (formerly Lancashire ). The building, now a Scheduled Monument , was built in 1469 by Sir Thomas Pilkington , landlord of Bury and Pilkington and influential member of the Lancashire nobility . He received permission from King Edward IV to “make and build walls and bevels of stone, lime and sand around and under his mansion in Bury, Lancaster, and to enclose the mansion with these types of walls and bevels; also to provide these towers with battlements , fortifications and machicolations . ”The house is at the top of a slope above the River Irwell , where it can be defended well. Excavations have revealed six different construction phases. The first phase, in which a level foundation for the house and the moat were created, lasted from 1359 to 1400. The building was razed to the ground on the orders of King Henry VII after Thomas Pilkington in the Wars of the Roses , especially in the battle by Bosworth in 1485, who had supported the House of York . In addition, all of Sir Thomas' lands were confiscated.
In 1540, the librarian John Leland described Bury Castle as "a ruined castle near the town's parish church". In 1753, Thomas Percival drew plans for the visible foundations of the walls of Bury Castle, which took up an area of 180 meters by 82 meters. The ruins provided building material for the place Bury. In 1865, more foundations were discovered, this time from a donjon or defense tower with a base area of 25 meters × 19 meters and 1.8 meters thick walls.
The remains of Bury Castle attracted public attention in 1973 when amateur archaeologists discovered walls that were previously hidden under a car park. “Restoration and expansion” has been carried out on the Bury Township Estate and has been open to the public since 2000. Bury Castle is about two miles north of Radcliffe Tower , a mansion and moat from the early 15th century.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Bury Castle . Pastscape.org.uk. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e Bury Castle . Eduweb.co.uk. Archived from the original on June 24, 2007. 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 April 4, 2008.
- ^ A b c d e f Terry Ashworth: The Rediscovery of Bury Castle in Bury Local History Society Journal . Summer 1999.
- ^ Bury Metropolitan Borough Council: Bury's historic built environment (DOC) Bury.gov.uk. February 19, 2004. Archived from the original on March 27, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 27, 2008.
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 37.3 " N , 2 ° 17 ′ 49.3" W.