Warblington Castle
Warblington Castle or Warblington Manor is the ruins of a mansion in the village of Langstone in the English county of Hampshire . Today only a little more than a tourelle of the old gatehouse is preserved.
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A medieval mansion originally stood on the Langstone site. In 1340 there is said to have been a royal license to fortify this house (English: License to Crenellate), but that is not certain. The property passed through many hands before being owned by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , in the 15th century . With the execution of Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick , at the behest of King Henry VII , the property was confiscated and fell to the Crown. In 1513 King Henry VIII gave it to Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury , who had a new mansion with a moat built on this site. After Margaret Pole was convicted of high treason , the property was given to William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton , and Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton . Then Henry VIII gave the manor to Sir Richard Cotton . In October 1551, Marie de Guise , the widow of King James V of Scotland , stayed one night in the manor house as a guest of Sir Richard Cotton. King Edward VI. visited the manor house in 1552. Queen Elizabeth I could have been a guest for two days in 1586. The Cotton family kept the house until the English Civil War .
In January 1643, the parliamentarians under Colonel Richard Norton occupied the mansion with a garrison of between 40 and 80 men. It was then besieged and captured by the royalist troops under Lord Hopton ; However, Colonel Norton managed to escape.
The Cotton family supported the royalist side, so that the mansion was largely destroyed by the parliamentary troops. A turret of the gatehouse has survived to this day and serves as a navigation aid for ships in the Langstone Channel . The Tourelle is octagonal and has four floors. It is mostly made of bricks with stone cladding and battlements .
Today the tourelle, the archway and the supports of the drawbridge in the moat are still preserved. The area on which the remains stand is private property. The property was designated a Historic Building II * by English Heritage . Grade and is considered a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d William Page (editor): Warblington . In: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 . Institute of Historical Research. 1908. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ A b c William Barron: The Castles of Hampshire & Isle of Wight . Paul Cave Publications, 1985. ISBN 0-86146-048-0 . P. 50.
- ^ A b Phillip Davis: Warblington Castle, Havant . Gatehouse website. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ A b c d David W. Lloyd: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs . City of Portsmouth, Portsmouth 1974. p. 23.
- ^ A b c d e f G. N. Godwin: The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House . Laurence Oxley, 1973 (1904). ISBN 0-9501347-2-4 . Pp. 157-158.
- ^ Calendar State Papers Foreign Edward . London 1861. 190, (PRO SP68 / 9/85).
- ^ GN Godwin: The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House . Laurence Oxley, 1973 (1904). ISBN 0-9501347-2-4 . P. 397.
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, David Lloyd: The Buildings of England . Chapter: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . Penguin Books, London 1967. ISBN 0-140710-32-9 . P. 641.
- ↑ Havant . Havant Borough Council. December 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 39.8 " N , 0 ° 57 ′ 57.2" W.