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Cresswell Tower
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Creswell
In the civil parish of Cresswell.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Former seat of the Cresswell family. A large C18 house was once built on to the north end of the tower and was demolished in the mid-C19. The tower is now an isolated structure set within woodland. The only trace of the former mansion is its roof groove on the north wall of the tower. The medieval tower is C15 in date, with C18 parapet and turret. The tower was conserved recently to prevent further decay.
This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 238155)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ29369335
PastScape number;
25482
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N11924
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p225-6
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p41
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p181
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p63
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p331
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p216
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p126
Long, B., 1967, Castles in Northumberland, (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p89-90
Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles [1970 Reprint by Frank Graham] p83-4
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p22
Hodgson, J.C., 1832, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) pt2 Vol2 p204-5
- Journal Articles
- Ryder, Peter 2003. 'Cresswell Tower' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser5] Vol32 p73-90
Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' Archaeological Journal Vol138 p228
Hadcock, R.N., 1939, 'Map of Mediaeval Northum and Durham' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser4] Vol16 p148-218
Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser3] Vol13 p16
1832, Gentleman's Magazine pt2 p307
- Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
- Dixon, P.W., 1977, Fortified houses on the Anglo-Scottish border: a study of the domestic architecture of the upland area in its social and economic context, 1485-1625 (Unpublished D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford) p173
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