Wattlesborough Castle

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Wattlesborough Castle in Alberbury

Wattlesborough Castle is the ruin of a residential tower in the English county of Shropshire . It lies on the border with the Welsh county of Montgomeryshire . Wattlesborough is an earlier settlement in what is now Alberbury parish . The ruin has been listed by English Heritage as a historical building of the first degree and it is considered a Scheduled Monument . The residential tower consists of a two-storey tower with a square floor plan over a basement, surrounded by an enclosure with a moat and a fish pond. The Leighton family inherited Wattlesborough Castle in 1471 and used it as their main residence until around 1711, when a farm called Wattlesborough Hall was subsequently built.

history

The manor Wattlesborough belonged to Edric before the Norman conquest of England and at the time of the Domesday Book 1086 it had fallen to Roger FitzCorbet . Later she was held as 1 Knight Fairy by the descendants of Roger FitzCorbet as lords of Caus Castle in Shropshire. Edward Blore states that Wattlesborough fell to the Mawdys in 1382 , then to the De Burghs in 1414, and to the Leightons in 1471 . Blore thinks that the residential tower was built by the Corbets in 1280, but that might be a bit early. The Leighton family lived in Wattlesborough Castle until 1711 when they moved to nearby Loton . From then on, Wattlesborough became a working farm. A John Leighton was a Member of Parliament for Shropshire in 1468, and that office was later held by other family members.

today

The residential tower is listed as a historical building of the first degree and is a Scheduled Monument. Only the tower without a roof has been preserved and its condition is officially considered poor. English Heritage is currently in discussion with the owner about the best way to preserve the building.

Gallery images

  • Wattlesborough Castle and Wattlesborough Hall

  • Wattlesborough Tower 1858

  • Floor plans of the floors

  • window

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wattlesborough Castle, Remains of, Adjoining Wattlesborough to North West . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  2. ^ Victoria County History of Shropshire . Volume IS 325.
  3. ^ Edward Blore: Wattlesborough Tower, Shropshire in Archaeological Journal . Issue XXV (1868). Pp. 99-102.
  4. ^ Edward Blore: Wattlesborough Tower, Shropshire in Archaeological Journal . Issue XXV (1868). P. 102.

literature

  • Edward Blore: Wattlesborough Tower, Shropshire in Archaeological Journal . Issue XXV (1868). Pp. 96-102.
  • AT Gaydon (Ed.): A History of Shropshire . Volume VIII: Condover and Ford Hundreds in Victoria County History of England . OUP, Oxford. Pp. 196-198.
  • E. Mercer: English Architecture to 1900: The Shropshire Experience . Logaston Press, 2003.
  • J. Newman, Nikolaus Pevsner : The Buildings of England: Shropshire . Yale 2006. p. 152.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′ 26.6 "  N , 2 ° 57 ′ 21.6"  W.