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Stogursey Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Stoke Courcy
In the civil parish of Stogursey.
In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of Somerset, 1974 county of Somerset).
The remains of a motte and bailey castle consisting of a low motte with inner and outer baileys to the east. Both the motte and baileys appear to have been surrounded by wet moats, which are now partially utilised by stream courses and a mill pond. Modern walling links the substantial surviving sections of the shell keep and an apparently C19 house has been erected on the remains of the gatehouse. The inner bailey has been disturbed but the outer bailey is in good condition. C12 castle destroyed by King John, rebuilt in early C13 and again destroyed in 1224, rebuilt in1330 but sacked in War of the Roses. Some C14 curtain wall and foundations of C14 gatehouse survive.
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 ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 265202)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST20284259
PastScape number;
191252
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 34071
- Web site links
- Books
- Prior, Stuart, 2006, A Few Well-Positioned Castles: The Norman Art of War (Tempus) p68-109
Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p83
Dunning, Robert, 1995, Somerset Castles (Somerset Books) p45-47 [plan]
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p223
Dunning, R.W. (ed), 1992, VCH Somerset Vol6 p136-7
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p444
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p303
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Pevsner, N., 1958, Buildings of England: S and W Somerset p301
Burrow, Edward J., 1924, Ancient Earthworks and Camps of Somerset (Cheltenham and London) p128
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Bothamley, 1911, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Somerset Vol2 p520
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p68-9
Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol2 p262
- Journal Articles
- Thompson, M.W., 1986, 'Associated monasteries and castles in the Middle Ages: a tentative list' Archaeological Journal Vol143 p315
Aston, M. (ed), 1976, ‘Somerset Archaeology 1974-75’ Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Vol120 p73
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]
1941, Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Vol87 p7
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