ALBERBURY CASTLE, REMAINS OF

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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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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:: ALBERBURY CASTLE, REMAINS OF

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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

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Legacy System number:: 258922
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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 195-6

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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.