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Trematon Castle
In the civil parish of Saltash.
In the historic county of Cornwall (Modern Authority of Cornwall, 1974 county of Cornwall).
Castle mentioned in Domesday and passed to the Dutchy of Cornwall in 1337. It became neglected in the mid C14 and was in ruins by C16. There are the remains of C12 shell keep and the gatehouse, rebuilt in C13, is substantially intact. A deer park is named in 1282 but had lost the deer by 1500. Higher Lodge, a two storey crenellated house (II*listed), was built within the castle bailey in 1807-8 and part of the curtain wall was demolished to provide views of the estuary.
This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
Timber Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SX410580
PastScape number;
437464
Books
- Higham, Robert A., 1999, 'Castles, Fortified Houses and Fortified Towns in the Middle Ages' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p136-43
Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p45-6
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p24
Spreadbury, I. D., 1984, Castles in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (Redruth)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p76
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p311
Price, M. and H., 1980, Castles of Cornwall (Bossiney Books) p105-117
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p846-7
Charles Henderson; edited by Rowse, A.L. and Henderson, M.I., 1963, Essays in Cornish history p161
Toy, Sidney, 1953, The Castles of Great Britain (Heinemann) p50-1, 151-2
Toy, Sidney, 1939, Castles: A short History of Fortifications from 1600 BC to AD 1600 (London) p59-60
Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p107-8
Armitage, Ella, 1912, The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles (London: John Murray) p226-7
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p19-20
Lysons, D. and S., 1814, Magna Britannia Vol3 Cornwall p. ccxl, 287-9, plates xxiii, xxxviii [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=403]
Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p34
Strutt, Joseph, 1774, Horda Angel-cynnan i, plate xxix
Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol8 p46-8
Borlase, William, 1754, Antiquites, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall (Oxford) p321-4
Journal Articles
- Harfield, C.G., 1991, 'A Hand-list of Castles Recorded in the Domesday Book' English Historical Review Vol106
1977, Fort Vol4 p84
Brown, R, Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol74 [Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p249-280]
Hussey, 1948, Country Life Vol104 p428-31, 478-81
Toy, S., 1933, 'The Round Castles of Cornwall' Archaeologia Vol83 p217-19 [plans]
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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