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Kirtling Towers
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Catledge Hall; Catlidg
In the civil parish of Kirtling.
In the historic county of Cambridgeshire (Modern Authority of Cambridgeshire, 1974 county of Cambridgeshire).
C16 Kirtling Towers is all that now remains of the ancient Kirtling Hall, originally built about the reign of Henry VI but the main part of the building was pulled down in 1801. The roof of the tower is flat and leaded, while the house has steeply pitched slate roofs with a gable parapet to the east. The gatehouse is of three storeys with the main south entrance blocked and the ground floor incorporated into the plan of C19 house. The gatehouse has four octagonal corner turrets above an embattled parapet. The two larger turrets are to the south, flanking the original entrance with a four-centred arch infilled with C19 window. Above is a fine two storey limestone oriel window. C19 house has similar detail to the gatehouse and is of two storeys. The house also has a closed, embattled porch. It stands on the site of a C13 castle and hall, which was built in C16 and survived until 1801. Prior to that, the site was occupied by a Saxon fortified house owned by King Harold.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants 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 49203)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL68675744
PastScape number;
377119
Books
- Wareham, Andrew, 2002, VCH Cambridge and the Isle of Ely Vol10 p65-7 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18789
Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of East Anglia (Malvern) p20
Miller, J., 1992, Archaeological Excavations at Kirtling Towers, Cambridgeshire (Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Taylor, Alison, 1986, Castles of Cambridgeshire (Cambridge)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p40
Taylor, Christopher, 1973, The Cambridgeshire landscape: Cambridgeshire and the southern fens p152
Salzman, L.F. (ed), 1967, VCH Cambridge and the Isle of Ely Vol1 p398, 402-3
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1954, The buildings of England: Cambridgeshire p339
Phillips, 1948, in Salzman, L.F. (ed), VCH Cambridge and the Isle of Ely Vol2 p33-4
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p299
Journal Articles
- 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]
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