CASTLE, REMAINS OF

CASTLE, REMAINS OF, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307325
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: CASTLE, REMAINS OF
Statutory Address:: CASTLE, REMAINS OF, CHURCH STREET

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Date:: 1999-09-10
Reference:: IOE01/01589/25
Rights:: © Mr Myk Briggs. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307325
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CASTLE, REMAINS OF
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE, REMAINS OF, CHURCH STREET

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:: CASTLE, REMAINS OF, CHURCH STREET

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ruyton-XI-Towns
National Grid Reference:: SJ3945322154

Details

RUYTON-XI-TOWNS C.P. CHURCH STREET (north SJ 32 SE side) 8/142 Castle , remains of - [formerly listed as The Castle (remains) (in 19.1.52 Church yard)]

GV II

Castle, remains of. Early C14 for Edmund, Earl of Arundel on site of castle destroyed c.1212. Sandstone rubble masonry with facing removed. Fragmentary remains of 3 walls of small square keep on slightly raised platform; footings of another wall projecting at right-angles to north from north-west corner. Walls stand to a maximum of 10m high and north and south sections have rectangular inward-sloping openings of indeterminate date. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No. 71. B.o.E. p. 238; D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 9 (1908), pp. 823, 824-5.

Listing NGR: SJ3945322154

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Legacy System number:: 256694
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cranage, DHS , An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 823-825
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 238

Legal

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