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© Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
IoE Number:
303829
Location:
RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, CROSS LANE (south off)
LAMESLEY, GATESHEAD, TYNE AND WEAR
Photographer:
Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
Date Photographed:
17 July 2000
Date listed:
01 February 1967
Date of last amendment:
01 February 1967
Grade
II*
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NZ 25 NW LAMESLEY CROSS LANE
11/63 (south side, off)
1.2.67 Ravensworth Castle
G.V. II*
2 eastern towers and fragments of curtain wall; dates given as C12 (Pevsner
and Williamson); late C13 (Boyle); 1290 (Longstaff). C14 plan of 4 towers
and curtain wall forming square enclosure with no keep; (compare Ford 1338,
Chillingham 1344, Raby 1378) Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar
dressings. 3 storeys. Southern tower has elliptical-headed entrance in
the north face, 4 lancet windows in west ground floor of late C13 type.
North tower has mullioned and transomed window in first floor north face.
Historical note: Ravensworth Castle was the property of the Fitz-Marmadukes;
then in C14 and C15 of the Lumleys; then of the Gascoignes, from whom
Thomas Liddell, a Newcastle merchant, bought it in 1607. It remained in
the Liddell family until 1976. Sir Thomas Liddell, later Lord Ravensworth,
demolished all but these towers of the house then standing. A scheduled
ancient monument.