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Starborough Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Sterborough; Sterborrow; Prinkham; Pringham
In the civil parish of Lingfield And Dormansland.
In the historic county of Surrey (Modern Authority of Surrey, 1974 county of Surrey).
Quadrangular castle situated within a sandstone valley on the southern side of the River Eden. The castle buildings, which were constructed upon a roughly square, artificial island of 0.8 hectares, survive mainly in the form of buried foundations and associated archaeological remains. Documentary evidence suggest that the castle buildings were faced with sandstone ashlar and ranged around a central courtyard. The outer defences included a high curtain wall. Surrounding the island is a water-filled, roughly square moat up to 25m wide. Most of the original castle buildings have been dated to 1341, when the then owner, Lord Cobham, was granted a licence to crenellate. The monument is recorded as one of the places of captivity of the Duke of Orleans after the battle of Agincourt in 1415. The castle was dismantled by order of the Parliamentary government in 1648, when it was feared that it could be used as a focus for Royalist resistance.
This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry footings remains.
A Royal licence
to crenellate was
granted in 1341 Oct 18.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 287463)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ42584409
PastScape number;
407279
Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p410-12
Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of Surrey (Malvern) p22
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p242 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p466
Guy, John, 1980, Kent Castles (Meresborough Books)
Malden, H.E. (ed), 1912, VCH Surrey Vol4 p304-6, 399, 401
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Malden, H.E. (ed), 1902, 'Parishes: Lingfield' VCH Surrey Vol1 p417
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p100-1
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p413
Manning and Bray, 1809, The History and Antiquities of Surrey (London) Vol2 p341-7
Journal Articles
- Flower, J.W., 1864, Surrey Archaeological Collections Vol2 p115-94
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 (1340-43) p304
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
- Napier, F.H., 1973, Lingfield: The Story of a Surrey Parish [typescript in Lingfield library]
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