Clent Castle

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Clent Castle

Clent Castle is an artificial castle ruin known as Folly on the grounds of Clent Grove in the village of Clent in the English county of Worcestershire . Thomas Liell had it built at the end of the 18th century. English Heritage has listed it as a Grade II Historic Building.

The Folly (also " Sham Castle ") was built from hand-made bricks and plastered. They are two round towers connected by a central part. The towers are three stories high and have crenellated parapets. The window openings have stone architraves . The towers have pointed arched windows in front and on the sides, clover-leaf-shaped windows on the first floor and windows in the form of Maltese crosses above. The middle part has a pointed archway on the ground floor and a pointed arched window on the upper floor. This Folly appears similar to the Castlebourne Folly .

Individual references and comments

  1. ^ Christopher K. Currie, Clent Hills, Worcestershire: An Archaeological and Historical Survey. (NGR: SO 930800): Report to the Severn Region of the National Trust . Volume 1. ArcheologyDataService.co.uk, October 1996. Chapter: The Ornamentation of Clent Hill in the Later 18th Century . Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ Half of the population of Clent doesn't even know where Clent Castle is.
  3. ↑ Ross Reyburn: Down Your Way: The Distant Days of the Donkeys; Ross Reyburn Visits the Hamlets Scattered in the Clent Hills an Meets Villagers . Birmingham Post (December 12, 1998). Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ [Around 1782] Thomas Liell, a former lieutenant in the Royal Navy and former commander of the East Indiaman Stafford , became the owner of the gatehouse . He had the house rebuilt near the old house and built a folly, an imitation of a castle ruin. He changed the name to Clent Grove .
  5. ^ John Partington: An Echo from the Past - The Gatehouse . Clent History Society, May 9, 2013. (First published July 2007 in Clent Parish Magazine .) Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b Folly Tower 150 yards South of Glent Grove . British Listed Buildings. English Heritage. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  7. ^ Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner: Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England . Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-300112-98-6 . Chapter: Worcestershire . P. 232. ( Preview in Google Book Search, accessed February 22, 2016).

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 57 "  N , 2 ° 6 ′ 46"  W.