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Caverswall Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Caverswell; Carswell
In the civil parish of Caverswall.
In the historic county of Staffordshire (Modern Authority of Staffordshire, 1974 county of Staffordshire).
House, rebuilt from a castle with a licence to crenellate in 1275. The castle is a roughly oblong enclosure with four polygonal angle towers, which, with the walls, do not stand to full height. A house was built into the castle circa 1615 by Matthew Cradock. Further rebuilding work took place in C19. A moat survives which has been landscaped to form pleasure grounds.
This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
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 1275 Nov 7.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 274806)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ95084281
PastScape number;
77795
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 1997, Castles and Moated Mansions of Staffordshire (Malvern) p16-7
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p226
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p37
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p449-50
Pevsner, N., 1974, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire (London, Penguin) p95
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Lynam, C., 1908, in Page, Wm. (ed), VCH Staffordshire Vol1 p352-3 [plan]
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p390-1
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p233, 403
Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol5 p39-40
- Journal Articles
- 2005-6, 'Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire' Castle Studies Group Journal Vol 19 p122-3
Cantor, Leonard, 1966, 'The Medieval Castles of Staffordshire' North Staffordshire Journal of Field Studies Vol6 p38-46
Johnstone, J.D., 1950, Transactions of North Staffordshire Field Club Vol84 p121
Blizzard, 1937-8, Transactions of North Staffordshire Field Club Vol72 p49-61
Tipping, 1911, Country Life Vol29 p886-95
Masefield, 1888, Transactions of North Staffordshire Field Club p59-61 [slight history]
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- C143/2/43 (Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod Damnum, Henry III to Richard III c1216-c1485)
Calendar of Patent Rolls (1272-81) p109
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/warkseng.html#staf12]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p443
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol4 p129; Vol5 p19
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