Ennor Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Evor; Inor; Ynnor; Ivor; Old Town; Sullia

In the civil parish of St Marys.
In the historic county of Isles of Scilly (Modern Authority of Isles of Scilly, 1974 county of Isles of Scilly).

Small shell keep occupies a small but prominent knoll. The walls of the keep no longer survive in their entirety above ground level. The wall survives above ground on the north west and part of the west side, where it is circa 1m thick, of coursed rubble. Elsewhere, the line of the wall is now marked by earthwork banks between 2m and 4.5m wide and 1m and 1.5m high along the south west and east sides, and by a wider spread of dense rubble on the south east side. The keep's walls defined a sub-rectangular internal area measuring 22m by up to 17 m. The earliest reference to Ennor Castle is in a deed of AD 1244 and by 1306 Ranulf de Blanchminster held the castle. A royal licence to crenellate the castle was granted to Ranulf in 1315 but in 1337, the castle along with the rest of Scilly was included in the lands of the newly created Duchy of Cornwall. Enough remained to mount guns on as late as 1554. A castle of Scilly (Sullia) is mentioned in 1194, may have been here or elsewhere.

This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
Artillery Fort.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry footings remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SV91411034

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 304082

Books

Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p14
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p208 [slight]
Spreadbury, I. D., 1984, Castles in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (Redruth)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (New York) Vol2 p552
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p407
Lysons, D. and S., 1814, 'The Scilly Islands' Magna Britannia Vol3 Cornwall p330-7 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=403]

Journal Articles

Saunders, A.D. and Miles, T.J., 1970, 'King Charles's Castle, Tresco, Scilly' Post-Medieval Archaeology Vol4 p1-30
Saunders, 1962, Cornish Archaeology Vol1 p89
1957-60, Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol3 p42, 91

Guidebooks

O'Neil, B.H.St.J., 1950, Ancient Monuments of the Isles of Scilly (HMSO) p16

Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)

Calendar of Patent Rolls (1313-17) p262

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/isleseng.html#41]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p69
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p190

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