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Kilton Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Kylton
In the civil parish of Lockwood .
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of Redcar & Cleveland, 1974 county of Cleveland).
Remains of a tower keep castle of C13 date which replaced a timber castle constructed between 1135-40. The remains visible today were built about 1190-1200 by the Kilton family. The castle is mentioned in a document of 1265 in which a chantry was granted to an existing chapel at the site. The castle was abandoned as a dwelling soon afterwards, and in 1341 and 1345 it is described as small and worthless. It was totally abandoned during C16. The ruined castle remains are of coursed random sandstone rubble and dressed sandstone. It is long, narrow and roughly-rectangular in plan, projecting eastwards into a deep ravine; a causeway at the west end is flanked by the remains of a moat. The castle remains include the lower two storeys of the north, east and west walls of the tower at the north- east angle of inner bailey. It is rectangular in plan with a segmental north end. Between the north east tower and basement of the north and west walls of the keep are the lower parts of C13 bastion. The curtain wall is of rubble construction faced with fine ashlar blocks; in places the latter have been removed and the rubble core is visible. The height of the curtain wall varies from between 1.5m to 5.3m. On the south side, for much of the east side and the south part of the west side, it is visible as the low foundations of a stone wall.
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry footings remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 60125)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ702176
PastScape number;
29029
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p51
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p80-1
Jackson, M.J., 1996, Castles of Durham and Cleveland (Carlise) p34-8 [plan]
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p292
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p519
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker) p216
Pevsner, N., 1966, The Buildings of England: York; North Riding (London, Penguin) p208
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield) p52-6
Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH Yorkshire North Riding Vol2 p327-9
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p288
Whellan, T., 1857, History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire (T Whellan and Co) Vol2 p776
Young, G., 1817, History of Whitby and the Vicinity Vol2 p729-30
- Journal Articles
- 1987, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Medieval Section Vol16 p3-7
Youngs, S.M., Clark, J. and Barry, T.B., 1987, ‘Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1986' Medieval Archaeology Vol31 p119
Brotton, 1986, 'Kilton Castle' in ‘Yorkshire Archaeological Register: 1985' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol58 p203
Aberg, A., 1979, ‘A bronze, eagle-shaped spout from Kilton Castle. Cleveland' Antiquaries Journal 59 p411-12, 424
Thorp, F., 1976, ‘The Yorkshire Archaeological Register: 1975' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol48 p8
(Aberg), 1975, Medieval Archaeology Vol19 p241
1(Aberg), 974, Medieval Archaeology Vol18 p197
(Aberg), 1973, Medieval Archaeology Vol17 p165
(Aberg), 1972, Medieval Archaeology Vol16 p184
(Aberg), 1971, Medieval Archaeology Vol15 p149
Aberg, A., 1969, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol42 p243 [slight]
(Aberg), 1969, Medieval Archaeology Vol13 p261-3
(Aberg), 1968, Medieval Archaeology Vol12 p181
(Aberg), 1967, Medieval Archaeology Vol11 p288
(Aberg), 1966, Medieval Archaeology Vol10 p192
I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p361
I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'Kilton Castle' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p55-126
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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