Cheveley Castle

Cheveley Castle
Cheveley Castle
Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, England
Cheveley Castle is located in Cambridgeshire
Shown within Cambridgeshire
Type Fortified manor house in an Edwardian style
Coordinates 52°13′28″N 0°27′23″W / 52.2244°N 0.4563°W / 52.2244; -0.4563Coordinates: 52°13′28″N 0°27′23″W / 52.2244°N 0.4563°W / 52.2244; -0.4563
Construction
materials		 Stone
Current
condition		 Only limited masonry survives

Cheveley Castle was a medieval fortified manor house near Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cheveley Castle was built by Sir John Pulteney, a merchant-financier and Lord Mayor of London, around 1341 on the outskirts of the village of Cheveley.[1] The castle was built in an Edwardian style, with four circular towers, gatehouse and a bailey wall, on an elaborate moated site north-west of the village.[2] It is the only castle of its type to have been built in Cambridgeshire, and was probably intended less for defence than as a high-status hunting lodge - in the 14th century, Cheveley was at the centre of a deer park.[3] The moat at Cheveley may have inspired other, similar moated designs across the eastern region.[4]

The castle deteroriated after the early 17th-century, and today only limited masonry remains exist on the site, which is a scheduled monument.[3]

See also

Bibliography

  • Creighton, Oliver Hamilton. (2005) Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England. London: Equinox. ISBN 9781904768678.

References

  1. ^ Cheveley: Manors and estate, A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002). Accessed: 20 May 2011.
  2. ^ Cheveley: Manors and estate, A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002). Accessed: 20 May 2011.; Cheveley Castle, Gatehouse website, accessed 20 May 2011..
  3. ^ a b Cheveley Castle, Gatehouse website, accessed 20 May 2011.
  4. ^ Creighton, p.195.

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