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Tiverton Castle
In the civil parish of Tiverton.
In the historic county of Devon (Modern Authority of Devon, 1974 county of Devon).
The castle was founded at the beginning of C12 by Richard de Redvers, the first Earl of Devon. None of this castle survives. The surviving castle has a quadrangular plan and encloses about an acre. The earliest fabric surviving is early C14 and comprises stone-built first floor chapel, hall and solar, a west wall with square turret, three-storey round tower on the SE corner, and gatehouse. Later additions are also present.
This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
Timber Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 485328)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SS95411294
PastScape number;
36436
- Web site links
- Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p650-55
Higham, Robert A., 1999, 'Castles, Fortified Houses and Fortified Towns in the Middle Ages' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p136-43
Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p81-2
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p62-3
Furtado, Peter et al (eds), 1988, Ordnance Survey guide to castles in Britain (London) p78
Mildren, James, 1987, Castles of Devon (Bossiney Books) p64-7
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p119
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p307
Pevsner N., 1952, The Buildings of England: North Devon p285
Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p92-3
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p40-2
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p356
Lysons, D. and S., 1822, Magna Britannia Vol6 Devon p. cccxlv-cccxlviii [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=406]
Dunsford, 1790, Hist. Memoirs of Tiverton p298-304
Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p70
- Journal Articles
- Higham, R.A., 1988, 'Devon Castles: an annotated list' Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society Vol46 p142-9
1913, Archaeological Journal Vol70 p535-6
T[ipping], 1908, Country Life Vol23 p486-92
Paterson, G.A., 1862, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol18 p237-46
- Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
- Higham, R., 1979, 'The Castles of medieval Devon' (PhD thesis, Univesity of Exeter)
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