Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0696
REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0696, NEWPORT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1176571
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0696, NEWPORT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1176571
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0696, NEWPORT ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0696, NEWPORT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tong
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7924606936
Details
SJ 70 NE
6/40
TONG C.P.
NEWPORT ROAD
(West side)
Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0696.
II
Castle, remains of. C14 to circa 1765. Sandstone and red brick on
natural rock. Fragmentary remains of stables and outbuildings including
barrel vaulted cellars and part of newel staircase. The site is now
divided into two, and largely obscured, by the M54 Motorway (qv. Remains
of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0693). George Durant the elder (d.1780)
demolished most of Sir Harry Vernon's circa 1500 castle in 1764 and
replaced it with 'Capability' Brown's Gothick Castle in 1765, which was,
in turn demolished in 1954. Recently excavated by the Shropshire Archaeological
Society with report to follow (qv. Convent Lodge, wall with pulpit
approximately 10 metres to East of Convent Lodge, The Old Post Office,
former North gates and flanking walls). N. Pevsner, B.O.E. Shropshire,
p.304; G. Griffith, History of Tong and Boscobel, 1894, pp. 89-92 and
pp.154-61; D. H. Robinson, The Wandering Worfe, Waine Research Publications,
1980, pp. 56-9.
Listing NGR: SJ7924606936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255312
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, D H, The Wandering Worfe, (1980), 56-59
Griffith, G, History of Tong and Boscobel, (1894), 89-92
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 304
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