Chipchase Castle
Chipchase Castle is a mansion north of Hadrian's Wall near Wark on Tyne between Bellingham and Hexham in the English county of Northumberland . The 17th century Jacobean house includes a large 14th century peel tower . It is a Scheduled Monument and English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
The Heron family acquired the manor of Chipchase through the marriage of Walter Heron to the Chipchase heiress. In the middle of the 14th century he had a massive, four-story residential tower built on the site of an earlier house.
A report from 1541 describes a "Fare Tower" with a "stone mansion attached" owned by John Heron.
In 1621, Cuthbert Heron , High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1625 , had a beautiful Jacobean mansion built. The tower was left standing and the new house was added to it. His eldest son George died in the service of King Charles I at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644. His second son Cuthbert was made a baronet by King Charles II , but ran into financial difficulties Century.
John Reed , a banker from Newcastle upon Tyne bought the property in 1734 and had extensive renovations carried out on the manor house, e.g. B. the construction of a classical facade on the old residential tower. The failure of the Reeds family bank forced his descendants to sell the property to the Backworth Grays in 1821 to settle their debts.
The mansion is in private hands. The property is open to the public, but the mansion is only open to the general public in June.
literature
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980, ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chipchase Castle . Images of England. English Heritage. ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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 18, 2016.
- ↑ Chipchase Castle . Keys to the past. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ a b Chipchase Castle . Structures of the North East. ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Chipchase Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
- ^ Chipchase Castle - Weddings - Fishing - Shooting - England, Northumberland . In: chipchasecastle.com . Retrieved February 18, 2016.
Coordinates: 55 ° 4 '32.2 " N , 2 ° 11' 9.6" W.