REMAINS OF SHRAWARDINE CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366944
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1958
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF SHRAWARDINE CASTLE
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF SHRAWARDINE CASTLE

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Date:: 2003-12-05
Reference:: IOE01/10734/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366944
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1958
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF SHRAWARDINE CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF SHRAWARDINE CASTLE

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:: REMAINS OF SHRAWARDINE CASTLE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Montford
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40057 15375

Details

MONTFORD C.P. SHRAWARDINE SJ 41 NW SJ 4006 1537 5/156 Remains of Shrawardine 13.6.58 Castle (formerly listed as Ruins of Castle of Shrawardine)

GV II

Remains of castle. C12. Red sandstone rubble with the remains of some dressed sandstone. Fragmentary remains of a shell keep on a motte. The motte and bailey existed before 1165. The castle was slighted in 1644. County A.M. No. 52. B.O.E., p. 247; Derek Renn, Norman Castles in Britain, p. 311.

Listing NGR: SJ4005715375

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 259224
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 247
Renn, D F, Norman Castles in Britain, (1971), 311

Legal

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