Caludon Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Calvedon; Caloughdon; Caledon

In the civil parish of Coventry.
In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Coventry, 1974 county of West Midlands).

The ruins, earthwork and buried remains of the moated site known as Caludon Castle. At the end of C13 the Earl of Chester granted Caludon to Stephen de Segrave. He is believed to have been responsible for erecting the first house at the site and was granted a licence to crenallate it in 1305 [Parker writes Johannes de Segrave, senior]. Following the death of John, Lord Segrave in 1353, Caludon passed to his daughter and her husband John de Mowbray, who are thought to have obtained a further licence in 1354 and rebuilt the original house. Caludon Castle fell into disrepair towards the end of C14 when Thomas Mowbray was banished by Richard II. In the northern half of the moat island is the north wall of a building constructed of ashlar blocks of grey sanstone with red sandstone dressings. The wall contains two decorated windows with fragments of mid C14 tracery of cinque foil form, which are believed to have belonged to a first floor hall.

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

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1305 Feb 2.

A possible Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1354.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 218479)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP37388015

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; 336027

• Web site links
  • http://www.geocities.com/hank99uk/CaludonCastle.html
    http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_midlands/140/caludoncastle.htm
    http://www.wyken.com/html/caludon_castle.html
• Books
  • Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p366
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p256
    Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p36
    Salter, Mike, 1992, Castles and Moated Mansions of Warwickshire (Malvern) p22-3
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p481
    Stephens, W.B., 1969, 'The City of Coventry: The outlying parts of Coventry: Wyken and Caludon', VCH Warwick Vol8 p121-2
    Pevsner, Nikolaus and Wedgwood, Alexandra, 1966, The buildings of England Warwickshire p281
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p346-7
    Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p405
• Journal Articles
  • Anon, 2005, 'Caludon Castle, near Coventry' CSG Newsletter Vol7 Issue1 p3
    1974, Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society transactions Vol86 p100-101
    Chatwin, P.B., 1947-8, 'Castles in Warwickshire' Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society Vol67 p27
    Whitley, 1883, The Builder Vol45 p143-4, 148
• 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) p314
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/warkseng.html#warks14]