Manchester Castle

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Chetham's School of Music on the site of the former Manchester Castle

Manchester Castle is an Outbound castle in Manchester in the English administrative unit Greater Manchester . The medieval fortified mansion was believed to be at the confluence of the Irk and Irwell rivers near the cathedral , where Chetham's School of Music is now located. This would then be on the edge of the medieval settlement of Manchester.

history

Manchester Castle was first mentioned in 1184; records from 1215 state that it belonged to the Greslé family, who were barons of Manchester. This is the castle's last historical reference. Before the mansion was built, Manchester Castle may have been in the shape of a ring-work made of wood with wooden palisades . This earlier castle has been described as "of no political or military importance". Three rings of moats surrounding the presumed castle grounds have been discovered, but these could also have been part of the Saxon burh or a Norman castle.

In his book, Warfare in England in 1912, the writer and historian referred Hilaire Belloc , the Manchester Gap between the Pennines and the estuary of the River Mersey as one of the two main lines of defense in medieval England. The other was the one on the Thames . Although Belloc ascribes great importance to Manchester and its well-known ability to stop troop movements, the castle historian Cathcart King Belloc refuted , because the site was forgotten early on.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Caron Newman: Medieval Period Resource Assessment in Archeology North West . Issue 8 (2006). ISSN 0962-4201. P. 141.
  2. ↑ a b Manchester Castle . Pastscape. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Manchester Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Alan Kidd: Manchester . Keele University Press, Keele 1996 (1993). ISBN 1-85331-028-X . P. 13.
  5. ^ Mike Nevell: Manchester: The Hidden History . The History Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7524-4704-9 . P. 41.
  6. ^ David J. Cathcart King: Catellarium Anglicanum: An Index and Bibliography of the Castles in England, Wales and the Islands . Volume I: Anglesey-Montgomery . Kraus International Publications, 1983. pp. XX-XXI. 
Koordinaten: 53° 29′ 12,4″ N, 2° 14′ 30,9″ W