Plympton Castle
| Plympton Castle | |
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 View of the Motte from the former outer bailey |
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| Creation time : | around 1100 |
| Castle type : | moth |
| Conservation status: | ruin |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 23 '1.4 " N , 4 ° 2' 55.3" W |
Plympton Castle is a ruined castle in Plympton , a district of the south-west English city of Plymouth . The ruin, protected as a Grade II * cultural monument and a Scheduled Monument , is located in the center of the village, about 2 km east of the River Plym .
Plympton Castle
The castle was built as a wooden castle by Richard de Redvers or his son Baldwin de Redvers at the beginning of the 12th century . At the beginning of the civil war The Anarchy , the castle was conquered and destroyed by King Stephen in 1136 . However, Baldwin rebuilt the castle as a stone castle from 1141 after he was appointed Earl of Devon . In 1224 the castle was besieged again when Falkes de Bréauté , who had married the widow of Baldwin de Redvers , the grandson of the 1st Earl, opposed Henry III. rebelled. The sheriff of Devon, Robert de Courtenay , captured the castle after a 15-day siege. In 1370 Edward the Black Prince visited the castle. In the 16th century, the castle buildings fell into disrepair, but the fortification walls were still preserved. The castle therefore served the royalists under Moritz von der Pfalz in 1643 as a base and headquarters during the English Civil War during the siege of Plymouth , which is why the castle was captured by parliamentary troops in 1644 and finally destroyed in 1647. The castle fell into disrepair, the grounds of the bailey was used in the 18th and 19th centuries by the community as a fairground. On September 29, 1922, the ruin became the property of the municipality.
The ruins are now freely accessible; the former castle is bordered to the north by the 11-hectare urban park Plympton Pathfields .
investment
The castle was built as a typically Norman moth as a castle hill with an upstream bailey to the west. The castle gate was on the west side. On the castle hill there was a round keep made of quarry stone about ten meters high . The tower was about 15 meters in diameter and had a parapet walk around it. Walls up to four meters high have been preserved from the tower, the residential and farm buildings in the outer bailey have not been preserved, only the remains of the moat are visible.
Web links
- Pastscape: Plympton Castle
- The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History: Plympton Castle
- Plympton St Maurice civic association: Plympton Castle
Individual evidence
- ^ Plympton: The History of Plympton St Maurice. Retrieved April 11, 2013 .
- ^ Plymouth City Council: Plympton Pathfields. Retrieved April 11, 2013 .