Crayke Castle

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Crayke Castle is a castle on Church Hill in the village of Crayke in the England management unit North Yorkshire . The castle from the 15th century consists of a four-story tower and ancillary buildings attached to the rear, as well as a separate tower ruin, also from the 15th century, the "New Tower".

history

There is documentary evidence that a castle was built on this site shortly after the Norman conquest of England . Bishop Hugh de Puiset is said to have had it built. Not many details can be gleaned from these early documents, but the foundations of today's structures are believed to have come from earlier structures. The current building was erected in 1450 at the behest of Robert Neville , Bishop of Durham , on land that had belonged to the Diocese of Durham since Anglo-Saxon times. It is located at the highest point of the municipality at 114 meters above sea level

Until the time of King Jacob I , the castle was surrounded by a deer park. In 1647 the parliament stipulated that the castle should not be garrisonized and demolished. During the English Civil War the castle was razed by the parliamentarians and sold in 1648 to Sir William Allanson , a former major and member of the Parliament of York . Allanson's son Charles had the main building repaired and rebuilt in the state in which it can be seen today.

Around 1667 the manor was returned to the Diocese of Durham and leased as a farm. Bishop William van Mildert received parliamentary permission in 1827 to sell the property to a private individual. There are many official reports on the castle, including one from Canon Raine for the Victorian Associated Architectural Societies . During the Second World War, the castle was temporarily requisitioned as barracks for the Land Army . English Heritage has listed the castle as a Grade I Historic Building since 1952 .

The castle once belonged to Kevin Hillinrake , Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton since 2015 .

construction

Currently the property consists of two buildings. Only the southern part is habitable. The entire property has an area of ​​2.4 hectares. A 2005 report describes evidence of a monastery complex that predated the post-Norman conquest buildings, a moth . Evidence of a gatehouse was also found there.

main building

The residential tower is a four-story, rectangular building with a floor space of 21.3 × 9.5 meters. Each floor is set off on the facade with a stone band. All floors have narrow, rectangular windows, the roof edge is crenellated . The entrance on the northeast side of the first floor was accessible via an external staircase that was removed. Today the entrance is on the ground floor on the south side. There is a vaulted basement to the building attached to the rear, which was added as a kitchen wing in the 19th century. Behind this kitchen wing there are foundations of a former knight's hall .

The "New Tower"

This building is northeast of the main building and was three stories high. Today's ruin only has two floors. It has an L-shaped floor plan with a maximum length and width of 16.5 meters each. The ground floor is built into the hill so that the upper floor opens towards the top of the hill. The remaining walls are about six meters high.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name: CRAYKE CASTLE List Entry Number: 1189213 . Herita gateway. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  2. ^ Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private and Commercial) of North Yorkshire 1890 . S&N Publishing, 1890. ISBN 1-86150-299-0 . P. 861.
  3. ↑ a b c A Brief History of Crayke - Crayke Castle . Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. 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 December 24, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.crayke.org.uk
  4. ↑ a b c d e History . Retrieved March 2, 20165.
  5. ↑ a b c British Listed Buildings . Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ To Englishman's Castle . Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  7. ^ A b c English Heritage Buildings at Risk (2004) Project, North Yorkshire Crayke Castle, Crayke Photographic Survey and Archaeological Observations . Retrieved March 2, 2016.

Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '44 "  N , 1 ° 8' 45.2"  W.