Caverswall Castle
Caverswall Castle is a country house in the village of Caverswall in the English county of Staffordshire . The house in the style of a medieval castle was built in the early 17th century within the walls of a castle ruin from the 13th century. English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
In ancient times, the basic rule of Caverswall belonged to the family Caverswall that in 1275 received royal permission to her mansion to fix (ger .: License to crenellate). The result was a castle with a moat , which had an almost rectangular floor plan, four corner towers and a donjon within a curtain wall .
In the 15th century the castle, previously owned by the Caverswall family, became the seat of the Montgomery family , three of whom were High Sheriffs of Staffordshire . During the English Civil War it was occupied by a parliamentary garrison and was severely neglected and deteriorated towards the end of the 17th century.
Matthew Cradock of Stafford , a local wool merchant, First Mayor of Stafford 1614 and Member of Stafford Parliament in 1621, bought the neglected castle in 1615. He had the manor house built, preserving the walls of the old castle. The architect of the house is said to have been Robert Smythson or John Smythson . The three-story house has five bays with ajimez windows with skylights . There is one with battlements provided parapet and entrance lobby.
When the male line of the Cradock family died out in 1655, the estate was sold to William Joliffe , High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1663, but the subsequent heir, William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane , was forced to sell. After that the country house had different owners. In 1811 it was occupied by a nunnery of the Benedictine order , who sold it to Sir Perceval Radcliffe in 1853 . It belonged to the Wedgwood family in the 1880s . In 1891, WE Bowers bought the property, had extensive renovations carried out and thus significantly improved the condition of the house. Bowers sold the property to the Sisters of the Holy Ghost in 1933 , who then sold it to another religious community, the Daughters of the House of Mary , in 1965 . When this order left the house in 1977, the property was divided and the individual parts were sold separately. In 2006 real estate tycoon Robin MacDonald bought the house for £ 1.7m and had it renovated for £ 1m.
In February 2015 the Sotheby’s property was put up for resale for approximately £ 3 million.
Since the house is still in private hands, it is not open to the public.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Caverswall Castle, Screen Walls, Gatehouse and Bridge . Heritage Gateway. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ↑ a b Caverswall Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ↑ a b A Survey of Staffordshire; Containing the Antiquities of that County . Erdeswick and Harwood, 1820. p. 187.
- ^ William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire . 1834, p. 730.
- ↑ He was a cousin of another Matthew Cradock who colonized Massachusetts .
- ↑ William Tunnicliffe: Cavarswall Castle, the seat of the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Vane in A Survey of the County of Stafford; Containing the Antiquities of that County . Erdeswick and Harwood, 1820.
- ↑ From Uttoxeter to Drayton in A Topographical Survey of the counties of Stafford, Chester and Lancashire ... . 1786. p. 13.
- ↑ Cecil Wedgwood (1863-1916) - One of England's Best . Staffordshire People. English Local History - A History of the Common People. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ^ Caverswall Castle . Staffordshire Pasttrack. Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. 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 March 14, 2014.
- ^ Daily Mail, March 13, 2014.
- ^ Caverswall Castle . In: Sotheby's . Archived from the original on February 11, 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 15, 2016.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '57.4 " N , 2 ° 4' 28.6" W.