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Cowdray House
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Codray; La Coudreye
In the civil parish of Easebourne.
In the historic county of Sussex (Modern Authority of West Sussex, 1974 county of West Sussex).
Site of a moated mansion of some size built c.1273, replaced but Tudor mansion of building of which started c.1520, licensed 1532. Had gunlooped gatehouse, ruins of which remain
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 1533 Jan 30.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 301628)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU89122168
PastScape number;
246795
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Sussex (Malvern) p35-6
Guy, John, 1984, Castles in Sussex (Phillimore) p54-9
Salzman, L.F. (ed), 1953, 'Easebourne' VCH Sussex Vol4 p49-50
Hope, William H. St John, 1919, Cowdray and Easebourne Priory (Country Life Publications)
Elwes, Dudley George Cary, 1876, A history of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex (London: Longmans) p77-81
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol1 (London) p373-8
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p316-8
- Journal Articles
- Woodburn, Bill and Guy, Neil, 2005-6, 'Cowdray House' Castle Studies Group Journal Vol 19 p31-47
Guy, Neil, 2005, 'The Cowdray and Midhurst Heritage Project' Castle Studies Group Bulletin Vol18 p166-8
1985, Archaeological Journal Vol142 p58
Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' Archaeological Journal Vol138 p226
Scott, Sir Sibbald D., 1863, ' Old Papers found in a Tower of Cowdray House' Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol15 p67-73
Scott, Sir Sibbald D., 1852, ' Cowdray House and its Possessors' Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol5 p176-189
- Guidebooks
- Ray, David, Cowdray Ruins (The Cowdray Estate Office)
Trotter, T., 1975 (Rev 7edn), Cowdray - its early history (The Cowdray Estate)
Trotter, T., 1948 (3edn), Cowdray - its early history (The Cowdray Estate)
Trotter, T., 1922 (1edn), Cowdray - its early history (The Cowdray Estate)
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII Vol6 p45 no105.25
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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*The listed building
may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site
of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.
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