Carn Brea Castle

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South view of Carn Brea Castle 2009
Location of Carn Brea Castle

Carn Brea Castle is a castle in the parish of Carn Brea in the English county of Cornwall . The granite building was built as a chapel in the 14th century and converted into a castle-style hunting lodge for the Basset family in the 18th century . The building, listed by English Heritage as a historical building of the 2nd degree, is now used privately as a restaurant .

description

The castle is a small stone folly in the romantic, idealizing style of a medieval or Gothic castle. It has an irregular floor plan with four rectangular turrets around a core of the same height and a parapet with battlements. The building stands on a large ledge with a precipice at the rear. It was designed as a hunting lodge and not for residential purposes and is 18 meters × 3 meters in size.

history

West side of Carn Brea Castle 1996

The castle was originally built as a chapel in 1379 and is said to have been dedicated to the Archangel Michael . Since then it has been extensively rebuilt in various periods, especially in the 18th century as a hunting lodge by order of the Basset family . It is known as Folly Castle because of the large stone blocks from which part of its foundations are made and which give the impression that the castle is merging with the ground.

The use of the castle as a navigation mark was recorded in 1898 when it was stipulated in the lease that the tenant undertook to put a light on the north window. The castle was not used in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and fell into disrepair until it was privately renovated between 1975 and 1980. In 1975 the building was listed by English Heritage as a Grade II Historic Building.

In the 1980s, Carn Brea Castle was converted into a restaurant serving oriental cuisine .

In the media

In the 19th century, an East India Company merchant ship was named after Carn Brea Castle. It went down off the Isle of Wight in 1829 and the Times reported that it was implicated in an excise tax fraud.

The stolen Ford Anglia from the Harry Potter films was found at Carn Brea Castle in 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sarah Chapman, David Chapman: Iconic Cornwall . Alison Hodge Publishers, 2008. ISBN 978-0-906720-57-8 . P. 16.
  2. ^ Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Great Britain: The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 8 . C. Knight. 1837.
  3. ↑ About Carn Brea . Carn Brea Protection Group. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved on August 20, 2007.
  4. ^ Pictures of Carn Brea . Parish of Saint Illogan. Archived from the original on December 26, 2007. Retrieved August 20, 2007.
  5. ^ Carn Brea Castle, Follies and Monuments . FollyTowers.com. Archived from the original on September 15, 2009.
  6. ^ Carn Brea Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Archived from the original on October 28, 2010. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  7. ^ Carn Brea Castle . Imagesofengland.org.uk. Archived from the original on February 1, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 5, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.imagesofengland.org.uk
  8. ^ Carn Brea Castle . Eat Out Cornwall. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.
  9. ↑ Some frauds of a very peculiar and extensive nature have been discovered in The Times , July 18, 1829.
  10. ↑ The Scotsman: Harry Potter's stolen car appears at castle . The Scotsman Publications Ltd. May 19, 2006. Retrieved October 30, 2006.

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 20.8 "  N , 5 ° 14 ′ 41.4"  W.