Lindisfarne Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Holy Island; Beblow Fort; Belbowe Fort; Biblawe Fort; Beblowe

In the civil parish of Holy Island.
In the historic county of Durham; North (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

Small fort built during the reign of Henry VIII, possibly on the site of an earlier look-out tower. Construction began in 1542 and it was completed in 1550 and was built from the stone of the ruined priory. It was restored in 1902 as a house by Sir Edward Lutyens and given to the National Trust in 1944.

This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU13634175

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; 7838

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N5347

• Web site links
  • http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/historicproperties/index.cfm?fuseaction=property&property_id=198
    http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/england/lindisfarne/lindisfarne.php
    http://www.touruk.co.uk/castles/castle_Lindisfarne.htm
    http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N5347
    http://www.sine.newcastle.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=172
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
    Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p74-5
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p189-90
    Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p78-81 [plan]
    Pevsner, N., 1992 (revised by Grundy, John et al), The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p339-40
    Furtado, Peter et al (eds), 1988, Ordnance Survey guide to castles in Britain (London) p186-7
    Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p10, 23
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p336
    Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works Vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London) p674-9
    Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p244
    Girouard, Mark, 1979, Historic Houses of Britain (Artus) [1984edn by Perage Books] p179-84
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p207-13
    Hedley, W. Percy, 1968-70, Northumberland Families Vol1 p47
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p123
    Addleshaw, 1957, Holy Island (Sunderland) p26-8
    Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles [1970 Reprint by Frank Graham] p149-52
    Morris, J.E. 1916. Northumberland (London) p213-4
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Tomlinson, W.W., 1897, Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p463-4
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p395
    Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol3 (London) p349-50
    Raine, J., 1852, History and Antiquities of North Durham (London) p163-8
    Scott, W., 1814, Border Antiquites of England and Scotland Vol2 p129-34
    Hodgson, J. and Laird, F., 1813, Beauties of England and Wales; Northumberland Vol12 p231
    Hutchinson, Wm, 1785-94, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham Vol3 p361-3
    Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p85
    Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol4 p93-7
• Journal Articles
  • Gray, 1948, History of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club Vol31 p85,107-9
    1914, Publications of the Surtees Society Vol124 p23
    1913, Country Life Vol33 p830-42
    1910, Publications of the Surtees Society Vol118 p18-19
    1907-8, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Vol3 p290-1, 301-11 [history]
    Astley, 1902, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol8 p193-4
    1895, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Vol7 p80-2
    1882-4, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Vol1 p241-2
    1855-7, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Vol1 p253-4
• Guidebooks
  • Cambridge, Eric, 1995, Lindisfarne Priory and Holy Island (English Heritage)
    Orde, Peter, 1986 (rev edn), Lindisfarne Castle Guide Book (National Trust)
    Gardiner, Rena, 1984, Look at Lindisfarne Castle (National Trust) [Children's guide book]
    Orde, Peter, 1978, Lindisfarne Castle Guide Book (National Trust)
    Halpin, Joanna, 1976, Lindisfarne Castle
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/isleseng.html#24]