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West Cowes
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Cowes Castle; Cowfort
In the civil parish of Cowes.
In the historic county of Hampshire (Modern Authority of Isle of Wight, 1974 county of Isle of Wight).
Henry VIII round tower with short, single storey rectangular wings to the east and west, forming a D to the front with a rectangular walled ditch to the back. Mostly destroyed by C18 C19 rebuilding - is now part of the Royal Yacht Squadron clubhouse. The original castle was a round tower flanked to east and west by rectangular wings and with a semi-circular curtain on the seaward side. The guns were mounted in three tiers.
This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 419053)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SZ49389657
PastScape number;
460628
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p68
Saunders, Andrew, 1997, Channel Defences (London; Batsford/English Heritage) p47, 49
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p109
Barron, W.G., 1985, The Castles of Hampshire and Isle of Wight (Paul Cave) p22
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p190
Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works Vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London)
Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd, 1967, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Harmondsworth) p741-2
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p204
Stone, P.G., 1891, The Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight (London) Vol2 p107-8
Worsley, Richard, 1781, The History of the Isle of Wight (London) p47, xci-xcii
Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p106
Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol2 p183
- Journal Articles
- Binney, M., 1985, 'Based on a Tudor bulwark: the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, Isle of Wight' Country Life 178 p298–301
Kenyon, J., 1983, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society Vol39 p138-9
Portal, 1917-19, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society Vol8 p83-94 [history]
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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