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Brownsea Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Branksea; Poole; Brensey
In the civil parish of Studland.
In the historic county of Dorset (Modern Authority of Dorset, 1974 county of Dorset).
Blockhouse of 1545-47 incorporated into later house. Walls of original blockhouse survive on ground floor, some with a slight batter, now plastered - no old features visible.
This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 2 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 109073)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SZ03058764
PastScape number;
457504
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p14
Pomeroy, Colin, 1998, Discover Dorset Castles and Forts (Dovecote Press) p50-2
Saunders, Andrew, 1997, Channel Defences (London; Batsford/English Heritage) p49, 50, 118
Wilton, Phil,1995, Castles of Dorset (Wimborne)
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p69 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p126
Morley, B.M., 1976, Henry VIII and the Development of Coastal Defence (London) p32-3
Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1975, The history of the King's Works Vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) p465-72
Pevsner, N. and Newman J., 1972, Buildings of England: Dorset (London) p117-8
RCHME, 1970, An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset. Vol2: south-east (HMSO) p279-81 plates 158-60
Short, 1963, A Short History of Brownsea Island (National Trust)
O’Neil, B.H.St.J., 1960, Castles and Cannon: A Study of Early Artillery Fortifications in England (Oxford: Claredon Press) p53 plate 14
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
van Raalte, 1906, Brownsea Island (London) p19-68 [history]
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p239-40
Hutchins, J., 1861-73 (3edn), History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset (Blandford) Vol1 p648-51
Sydenham, 1839, History Town and Country of Poole (Poole) p387-94
- Journal Articles
- Lutyens, 1921, Country Life Vol49 p430-6 [not very helpful]
van Raalte, 1905, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Vol25 p187-94 [history only]
- Guidebooks
- Brownsea Island Guide Book (National Trust)
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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