Starborough Castle

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Starborough Castle 2011

Starborough Castle , historically Sterborough Castle , was a medieval castle and is now an 18th century mansion in the English county of Surrey .

The first castle was built around 1341. and dragged down after the English Civil War .

The current neo-Gothic mansion, which occupies the northeast part of an artificial island south of the River Eden , about 3 km southwest of '' Edenbridge '', was built by Sir James Burrow in 1754. English Heritage has it as Building II *. Grade listed and it is considered a Scheduled Monument .

history

The first Starborough Castle was a mansion of Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough . On October 18, 1341, Cobham received permission from King Edward III. to fortify his mansion (English: “License to Crenellate”). The following year he had the house expanded and it became Starborough Castle . Like Bodiam Castle , Starborough Castle was a fortified castle . It had four towers and a gate, was surrounded on all sides by a moat and had a drawbridge on the south side.

After the Battle of Azincourt in 1415, the Duke of Orléans was imprisoned there for a while. Edward Burgh acquired the castle around 1476 through marriage to Anne Cobham , daughter of Sir Thomas Cobham , de jure 5th Baron Cobham of Sterborough .

The medieval castle around 1640

On July 4, 1648, the Parliament of England under Oliver Cromwell ordered the castle's demolition. It was feared that it could serve as a base for a royalist rebellion . Only the moat has been preserved to this day, even though parts of the old castle were used to build the current building in the northeast corner of the site.

In the 1700s the site became part of a landscaped garden before Sir James Burrow had the manor house built in 1754, now known as Starborough Castle. This house also fell into disrepair and remained in ruins for a long time, but a local farmer and bricklayer, Ray Edwards , restored it and sold it to Warwick Leadlay . Outbuildings were added under Leadlay and an annual jazz festival was held on the site. In 2003, Leadlay put the site up for sale.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Catherine Moye: Who will capture the castle? . May 31, 2003. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  2. a b Extract from English Heritage's record of Scheduled Monuments (PDF) English Heritage . December 23, 1997. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
  3. a b c d e `` Starborough Castle ''. Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  4. ^ Reginald, Lord Cobham of Sterborough at Lingfield (Surrey), died 1361 . icma center. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  5. ^ Burgh, Baron (E, 1487 or 1529) . Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
  6. ^ William Henry Ireland: England's topographer, or A new and complete history of the county of Kent . 1830. p. 612.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 39 ″  N , 0 ° 2 ′ 13.9 ″  E