Cawood Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Thorpe Lane; Carwood; Cawode

In the civil parish of Cawood.
In the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

The Archbishop of York's palace is first mentioned in 1181 and was transformed into a sort of quadrangular castle between 1374-88. Between C13 and C16 many archbishops altered and improved the palace, and this is supported by much documentary evidence. The castle. The palace and castle were largely demolished in 1750. The chapel and gatehouse of 1426-51 remain as farm buildings and are in a good state of repair. Fragments of precinct wall have been discovered. The castle seems to have extended further east and extensive foundations of former buildings existed until circa 1778. Licence to crenellate granted 1272.

This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE573376

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 56254

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p29
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p96-7
Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p118, 153, 167, 188
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p325
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p302
James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby) p184
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p515, 536
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p207
Pevsner, N., 1959. The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, West Riding (London) p160
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH York Vol2 p48
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p212-13
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol3 (London) p203-6

Journal Articles

Blood, N.K. and Taylor, C.C., 1992, 'Carwood: an Archiepiscopal Landscape' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol64 p83-102
Youngs, S.M. et al, 1988 ‘Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1987' Medieval Archaeology Vol32 p290
Youngs, S.M., Clark, J. and Barry, T., 1987, ‘Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1986' Medieval Archaeology Vol31 p168

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 (1266-72) p632

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/yorkseng.html#yorks30]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p522
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol4 p12

Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)

1982, Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 811

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