Buckingham Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Church of St Peter and St Paul

In the civil parish of Buckingham.
In the historic county of Buckinghamshire (Modern Authority of Buckinghamshire, 1974 county of Buckinghamshire).

The parish church is built in on what is thought to be a motte. A castle at this site was first mentioned in documentary sources in 1154-64 and was possibly demolished 1208-1215, although a Constable of Buckingham is documented in 1280. Levelled in 1777 for the churchyard which now occupies it. In 1877 excavations at the back of the Wesleyan chapel exposed foundations probably associated with the castle.

This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP69463373

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 341179

Books

Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of The Thames Valley and The Chilterns (Malvern) p34
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p10 [slight]
Pevsner, Nikolaus and Elizabeth Williamson with Geoffrey K Brandwood, 1994, The buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (Harmondsworth) p73
Drage, C., 1987, 'Urban castles' in Schofield, J. and Leech, R. (eds) Urban Archaeology in Britain (CBA Research Report) p117-32
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p27
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p196
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Page, Wm (ed), 1925, VCH Buckinghamshire Vol3 p476 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42600#s2]
RCHME, 1913, An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Vol2 [north] p16, 72
Armitage, Ella, 1912, The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles (London: John Murray) p112-3
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p145

Journal Articles

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]

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/buckseng.html#bucks8]

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