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Mackworth Castle
In the civil parish of Mackworth.
In the historic county of Derbyshire (Modern Authority of Derbyshire, 1974 county of Derbyshire).
Remains of C15 gatehouse, which formerly led to the courtyard of fortified manor house. The standing remains comprise the facade and part of the outer side walls of a two storey sandstone building. On the ground floor is a round arched central gateway which, originally, would have been flanked by side chambers containing staircases, leading to the guard chamber on the upper floor. The surviving walls of the first floor guardchamber exhibit evidence of a fireplace and show that the room was lit by straight headed, two light windows. The roof is crenellated and has corner turrets. The facade of the building is decorated above the gateway with carved stone heads and waterspouts. Suggested as the site of a timber motte-and-bailey castle on the Earl of Chester's Markeaton manor, and that this was in fact the origin of the elusive castle at Mackworth for which no evidence has yet been found.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House
Timber 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 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 78923)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SK314377
PastScape number;
313368
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern) p23
Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p413
Turbutt, Gladwyn, 1999, A History of Derbyshire Vol2 (Merton Priory Press)
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p51
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p61
Smith, Michael E., 1992, Castles and Manor Houses in and around Derbyshire (Derby)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p111
Pevsner, Nikolaus revised by Elizabeth Williamson, 1978, Buildings of England: Derbyshire (Harmondsworth) p177
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Cox, 1905, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Derbyshire Vol1 p384
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p193-4, 222
- Journal Articles
- Bailey, G., 1911, 'Mackworth Castle' Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Vol33 p206-7
Kerry, C., 1889, 'Mackworth: its castle and its owners' Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Vol11 p1-8
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