Dilham Castle

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Dilham Castle (left) between the other Hall Farm buildings

Dilham Castle , also Dilham Hall , the ruins of a fortified manor house in the village Dilham in the English county of Norfolk .

Details

Sir Henry Inglose probably had Dilham Castle built around the same time as Caister Castle , i.e. in the 1140s. Inglose had under King Henry V in France served and was a protégé of Sir John Falstof , who later Knight of the Garter was. Inglose married Anne de Gyney , a member of the prominent Dilham family . The castle was actually a fortified mansion and probably originally had two pentagonal towers that formed a gatehouse and an outer wall made of flint and bricks .

In 1904 only one of the two towers and part of the wall remained. The remaining tower had been restored using modern bricks and mortar. Today the remains are on Hall Farm grounds . English Heritage has listed them as Grade II Historic Buildings and they are a Scheduled Monument . In 2009, English Heritage classified the monument as poor due to damage caused by vegetation.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Brittain: Dilham Castle in Norfolk Archeology . No. 15 (1904). Pp. 190-191.
  2. ^ H. Brittain: Dilham Castle in Norfolk Archeology . No. 15 (1904). Pp. 192-193.
  3. ^ H. Brittain: Dilham Castle in Norfolk Archeology . No. 15 (1904). P. 192.
  4. ↑ a b Dilham Hall . Historic England. Pastscape. English Heritage . Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  5. ^ Dilham Hall . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Heritage at Risk Register 2009 . P. 56. English Heritage. Retrieved September 8, 2011.

Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 59.5 "  N , 1 ° 27 ′ 34.2"  E