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Kimbolton Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Kinnibantum
In the civil parish of Kimbolton.
In the historic county of Huntingdonshire (Modern Authority of Cambridgeshire, 1974 county of Cambridgeshire).
Large country house remodelled in 1707, by Vanburgh, of a C16/17 house constructed on site of C13-C14 quadrangular castle and moated site. Kimbolton Castle was acquired by Sir John Wingfield in c.1525. Queen Katherine of Aragon resided here from 1534 to her death in 1536. In c.1615 it was bought by Sir Henry Montagu, later first Earl of Manchester and it remained a family seat of the Earls and Dukes of Manchester until 1950 when it was sold to Kimbolton School.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 394698)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL100677
PastScape number;
363151
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of East Anglia (Malvern) p20
Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p264
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p13 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p225
Pevsner, N., 1968, The buildings of England: Beds, Hunts and Peterborough p276
Page, Wm, Proby, Granville and Ladds, S. Inskip (eds), 1936, VCH Huntingdon Vol3 p77-80
RCHME, 1926, An inventory of the historical monuments in Huntingdonshire p170-3
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p317-18
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol2 (London) p245-7
Journal Articles
- Archdale, M., 1966, Country Life VolCXL
Brown, R, Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol74 [Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p249-280]
Tipping, 1911, Country Life Vol30 p440-6, 474-82 [only on modern structure]
Guidebooks
- Burkett, P.R., Kimbolton Castle (published by Kimbolton School)
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/huntseng.html#hunts8]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p239
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p2
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