Hastings Castle
HASTINGS CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1043579
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- Statutory Address:
- HASTINGS CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1043579
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- Statutory Address 1:
- HASTINGS CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HASTINGS CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Hastings (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 82027 09482
Details
CASTLE HILL 1. 5204 Hastings Castle TQ 8109 SE 13/1A 19.1.51. TQ 8209 SW 14/1A I 2. C11 and Cl3 ruins, principally of the collegiate Church of St Mary, and the North and East curtain walls with East gate and bastions. The Castle built circa 1070. The church was started afterwards but before 1094. More building work in early 1170s to 1190s including the keep in 1172. Repairs of 1216 and afterwards progressive ruin. The walls are stone rubble, and as it exists now there are ruined walls and foundations of the church which had a central tower the western arch of which has been rebuilt, there are remains of a square tower at the west end of the nave. There remains the curtain walling along the North, North-west, North and North-east with the gatehouse on the North-east side with 2 rounded towers. Outside the walls on the north side are store-rooms (known as the Dungeons) in the form of narrow tunnel-vaulted passages. The keep and other buildings no longer exist. AM.
Listing NGR: TQ8199409456
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 293726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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