Star Castle and Garrison Walls

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; The Garrison, The Hugh; Stella Mariae

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).

Artillery fort of 1593, intact and basically unaltered although is now a hotel. Earliest part of complex of defenses dating up to WWII. Garrison Walls is defensive circuit around headland called The Hugh, the earliest part, begun 1593, is contemporary with Star Castle but just cut the headland off from Hugh Town; well preserved although altered in C18. The effect of Garrison Walls is to make the whole headland a fortification of which the artillery forts of Star Castle and The Folly (qv) are parts.

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

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 62525)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SV899106

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 303589

Web site links

http://www.starcastlescilly.demon.co.uk/

Books

Campbell, Adele (ed), 2004, Heritage Unlocked; Guide to free sites in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (English Heritage) p66-9
Duffy, Michael, 1999, 'Coastal Defences and Garrisons 1480-1914' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p158-60
Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p15
Saunders, Andrew, 1997, Channel Defences (London; Batsford/English Heritage) p50, 55, 79, 120
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p207-8
Spreadbury, I. D., 1984, Castles in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (Redruth)
Adams, F. and P., 1984, Star Castle and its Garrison (Liskeard: Belvedere Press)
Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works Vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London) p592-3

Guidebooks

The Garrison, St Mary's Isles of Scilly: A Walk Around the Walls (English Heritage)

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

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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.

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