STAFFORD CASTLE (REMAINS)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116695
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1953
List Entry Name:: STAFFORD CASTLE (REMAINS)
Statutory Address:: STAFFORD CASTLE (REMAINS)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116695
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1953
List Entry Name:: STAFFORD CASTLE (REMAINS)
Statutory Address 1:: STAFFORD CASTLE (REMAINS)

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STAFFORD CASTLE (REMAINS)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90175 22268

Details

1. 2385 CASTLE CHURCH Stafford Castle (remains) SJ 92 SW 18/1 17.3.53

II

2. Finely sited on a hill West of the county towm. Erected circa 1815 by Lord Stafford on site of mediaeval castle. It was never completed and for many years was a crumbling ruin. Only the lower parts now remain, the towers and curtain walls, being considered unsafe, were largely demolished in 1963.

Listing NGR: SJ9017522268

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Legacy System number:: 442878
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.