Lulworth Castle

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Lulworth Castle, 2013

Lulworth Castle is in East Lulworth , Dorset , south of Wool , lying castle .

Lulworth Castle was built as a hunting lodge between 1588 and 1609 by Thomas Howard , 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon , a grandson of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk , but was later converted into a country house. In 1641, Howard's inheritance sold the estate to Humphrey Weld. In 1786 Thomas Weld, the father of Cardinal Thomas Weld, commissioned the construction of a chapel on the grounds of the castle, which can also be visited today. In 1803 the French Jesuit and mystic Jean Nicolas Grou died in the castle . In 1929, large parts of the palace were destroyed in a fire. The castle was renovated in the 1970s. In 1998 work on the castle was finished, after which it was opened to the public.

The castle and the surrounding facilities are listed buildings with different protection status (grades) under monument protection: the main building as Grade I, the northern outbuildings (North Lodges) as Grade II *, the former stable buildings and the gardens as Grade II. The main building and North Lodges together with the surrounding garden walls are also classified as Scheduled Monument .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 15 "  N , 2 ° 12 ′ 38"  W.