Titchmarsh Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Tichmarsh; Tichemersh

In the civil parish of Titchmarsh.
In the historic county of Northamptonshire (Modern Authority of Northamptonshire, 1974 county of Northamptonshire).

Manor house owned by Sir John Lovel, in 1304 a licence was obtained to crenellate the house, and by 1346-7 it was moated and enclosed by a stone wall. It was in ruins by 1363. Excavations in 1887 revealed remains of buildings of apparently two phases, it being suggested that the earliest buildings had been surrounded by a near circular wall and that these were demolished in the early C14 and replaced with the manor house and present moat.

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

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1304 Nov 22.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL02457950

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 360805

• Web site links
  • http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_midlands/141/titchmarsh.htm
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern) p83
    Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p183
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p318
    RCHME, 1975, An inventory of the historical monuments in the County of Northampton. Vol1: North East Northamptonshire (HMSO) p99-100 plate 10
    Page, Wm (ed), 1930, VCH Northampton Vol3 p143
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Downman, E.A., 1906, in Serjeantson, R.M., Ryland, W. and Adkins, D. (eds), VCH Northampton Vol2 p413
    Dryden, Sir H., 1903, Memories of Old Northamptonshire (London) p24-30
    Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p404
• Journal Articles
  • 1976, CBA Group 9 Vol6 p24-6
    Dryden, Sir H., 1892, Associated Architectural Societies' reports and papers [Lincoln, York, Northampton, Bedford, Worcester, Leicester and Sheffield ] Vol21 p247-8
• 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 (1301-7) p290