CASTLE, REMAINS OF
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307325
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1987
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE, REMAINS OF, CHURCH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE, REMAINS OF, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
End of official listing
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