Alberbury Castle, Remains of
ALBERBURY CASTLE, REMAINS OF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175344
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Alberbury Castle, Remains of
- Statutory Address:
- ALBERBURY CASTLE, REMAINS OF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175344
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Alberbury Castle, Remains of
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALBERBURY CASTLE, REMAINS OF
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ALBERBURY CASTLE, REMAINS OF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alberbury with Cardeston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3580614403
Details
SJ 3514 ALBERBURY WITH ALBERBURY
CARDESTON C.P.
12/17 Alberbury Castle, remains
13.6.58 of [formerly listed as
Fitzwarine Tower
(Alberbury Castle)]
GV II*
Castle, remains of. Probably early C13, for Fulk Fitz Warin (III).
Coursed Alberbury breccia with red sandstone dressings and evidence of
former limewashing. Remains of 2-storey keep to south-west (probably
formerly with first-floor hall) and irregularly-shaped bailey to north-east
bounded by wall approximately 175 metres long, 3 metres high, and one metre
wide. Keep: very ruinous, with remains of internal first-floor cill
string; round- and pointed-arched openings. Walling: battered lower
stages with remains of diagonal buttress to north-west and section of
chamfered plinth to west; C19 doorway to churchyard at the north-east
corner with pointed chamfered arch and nail-studded boarded door with
strap hinges; pointed-arched doorway to east with boarded door, round
rear-arch with rounded reveals and "1646" inscribed on tympanum; C19
doorway to west with moulded pointed arch and boarded door. Ralph the Fat
is the first recorded tenant of the Manor of Alberbury. Fulk Fitz Warin (I)
probably succeeded him. The castle forms part of a close group in the
village centre with the church (qv) and the garden walls adjoining to the
south (qv). County A.M. No.18. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, pp. 195-6; County
S.M.R., no. 270
Listing NGR: SJ3580614403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 195-6
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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