Newton St Loe Castle

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Donjon of Newton St Loe Castle

Newton St Loe Castle is a castle in the village of Newton St Loe in the English county of Somerset .

history

West side with entrance

Newton St Loe Castle was originally built as a fortified mansion , probably in the 12th century. The house is surrounded by Newton Park , then a medieval deer park. At the beginning of the 14th century, as part of a larger building program by the St Loe family, a donjon was built on the site, creating a rectangular castle with an inner courtyard and four towers, protected on three sides by a moat . In 1375 Elizabeth St Loe inherited the property as the last member of her family. She married William, 2nd Baron Botreaux . Sir Walter Hungerford had a new gatehouse built in the first half of the 15th century , which had tourelles , machiculis and an early gun gate .

In the 19th century, the park around the castle was transformed into a landscape park and today's country house with its gardens was built there. Only the renovated keep and gatehouse of Newton St Loe Castle remain to this day; a nearby mound marks the location of one of the fourteenth-century towers of the castle.

Today the property is leased from Bath Spa University ; both the donjon and gatehouse are Scheduled Monuments and English Heritage has listed them as Grade I Historic Buildings.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b St Loes Castle . Pastscape. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Robert Dunning: Somerset Castles . Somerset Books, Tiverton 1995. ISBN 978-0-86183-278-1 . Pp. 61-62.
  3. ^ A b Adrian Pettifer: English castles: a guide by counties . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2002, ISBN 0-85115-600-2 , pp. 222 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 7, 2017]).
  4. ^ Susan M. Youngs, John Clark: Medieval Britain in 1980 in Medieval Archeology . No. 25 (1981). P. 200.
  5. ^ Castle Keep in the Grounds of Newton Park . Images of England. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ John R. Kenyon: Early Gunports in Fort . No. 4 (1977). P. 83.
  7. ^ Newton St Loe . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved July 28, 2016.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 23.9 "  N , 2 ° 26 ′ 27.6"  W.