Lympne Castle

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Lympne Castle 2011.
Engraving of Lympne Castle, around 1830. After that, extensive renovations and additions were carried out.

Lympne Castle is a medieval castle near the village of Lympne on a rock head above Romney Marsh in the English county of Kent . English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.

history

The location of the castle was strategically important in Roman times. Instead of the Roman Saxon coastal fort Portus Lemanis , Lanfranc built a new fortification in the Lympne in the 12th century, according to other sources not until the 13th century . The remains of the original castle (Stutfall Castle), the stones of which were used to build an abbey and a church and the new castle, can still be seen a little below the present castle. Most of this castle dates from the 1360s. For a long time it was the seat of the Archdean of Canterbury. In the Tudor period it was used as an estate, sold by the Archdeanate in 1860 and then left to decay. In 1905 Sir Richard Lorimer bought the ruins and had them restored. As a result, however, it fell into disrepair again.

During the Second World War , the castle, from which you can see the French coast in good weather , served as a military observation post.

Today the castle complex is owned by the Margary family , who had it renovated. Your premises are now mainly used for seminars and wedding celebrations and are also open to the public from May to September. The property is managed by Rod Aspinall . Lympne Castle is also said to be haunted regularly by ghosts and has therefore been visited by necromancers and ghost hunters over the years.

construction

Standing on a rock foundation, Lympne Castle is a two-story building with a parade bedroom at each end and a knight's hall in between . The vaulted bedroom ("Vaulted Chamber") is located in the square tower ("Square Tower"), the Archdean probably slept in the "Crown Post Chamber".

Part of the castle wall in front of the knight's hall was built with a particularly high parapet to protect the windows of the knight's hall from attacks. The knight's hall itself is partially wood-paneled and has wooden roof beams, Gothic pointed arched windows and doors. In the Tudor period, the central hearth was replaced by an open fireplace.

Culture

In September 1978 the band Wings recorded a few sessions for their 1979 album Back to the Egg at the castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Lympne Castle, Kent . The Heritage Trail. ( September 9, 2015 memento in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Lympne Castle - About Lympne Castle History ( Memento of April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Lympne Castle . Domesday Reloaded. BBC Online ( Memento of March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Lympne Castle . Kent History Forum . Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  5. ^ Paul McCartney's Sessions . Passagen.se (Swedish) ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Lympne Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 20 ″  N , 1 ° 1 ′ 25 ″  E