Liverpool, Stanley Tower

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; The Tower; Lyverpole

In the civil parish of Liverpool.
In the historic county of Lancashire (Modern Authority of Liverpool, 1974 county of Merseyside).

Fortified house, crenellated c.1406. Used as a gaol until 1811 and demolished in 1819. A mill and now an office block have been built on the site. "The Tower" was a remnant of a medieval house which served during C18 as the borough gaol. The earliest reference to the house is in 1406 when Sir John Stanley was granted a licence to crenellate. However, by the middle of C18 its remains were in use as the borough gaol. "The Tower" was demolished in 1819. May have been connected to Liverpool castle by a tunnel.

This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ33999041

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 67506

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Lancashire and Cheshire (Malvern) p35
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p263
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p136 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p249
Gibson, Leslie Irving, 1977, Lancashire Castles and Towers (Dalesman Books)
Farrer, William and Brownbill, J. (eds), 1911, VCH Lancaster Vol4 p4-8 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41370
Stewart-Brown, 1910, The Tower of Liverpool (Liverpool)
Fishwick, 1907, in Fishwick and Ditchfield (eds), Memorials of Old Lancashire Vol2 p17
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p199
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p421
Gregson, 1824, Portfolio of Fragments Relative to the History and Antiquities ... Lancashire (Liverpool) plate facing p172

Journal Articles

Stewart-Brown, 1909, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol41 p41-82
Fishwick, H., 1901, 'The Old Castles of Lancashire.' Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Vol19 p63

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 (1405-8) p207

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

Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p268

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