Thorpe Waterville Castle

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Barn in Thorpe Waterville, ruin of the great hall of Thorpe Waterville Castle

Thorpe Waterville Castle was a fortified manor house near the village of Thorpe Waterville in the English county of Northamptonshire .

Details

Walter Langton , the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield , had Thorpe Waterville Castle built around 1300. Langton had the wood used to build the manor stolen from the woods of the nearby abbey. The result was a luxurious fortified home. It was successfully besieged during the Wars of the Roses in early 1641, when the house was owned by Francis Lowell, 1st Viscount Lovell .

The manor's knight's hall was later converted into a barn, which has been preserved in this form to this day, complete with the remarkable 14th-century fireplace. Today these remains of the manor house are considered to be a historical building of the first degree.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Adrian Pettifer: English Castles: A Guide by Counties . Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2002, ISBN 0-85115-782-3 , pp. 168 (English, 384 pp.).
  2. ^ Adrian Pettifer: English Castles: A Guide by Counties . Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2002, ISBN 0-85115-782-3 , pp. 341 (English, 384 pp.).
  3. ↑ James D. Mackenzie: The Castles of England: Their Story and Structure . Volume 1. Macmillan, New York 1896. p. 341. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ Thorpe Waterville Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved October 20, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 16 ″  N , 0 ° 29 ′ 55 ″  W.