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© Mr John Cousens
IoE Number:
255317
Location:
REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0693, NEWPORT ROAD
TONG, BRIDGNORTH, SHROPSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr John Cousens
Date Photographed:
23 April 2007
Date listed:
29 August 1984
Date of last amendment:
29 August 1984
Grade
II
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SJ 70 NE TONG C.P. NEWPORT ROAD
6/41 Remains of Tong Castle at
- NGR SJ 7916 0693.
- II
Castle, remains of. C12 to the C16. Fragmentary remains of sandstone
walls on natural rock. The site is now divided into two,and largely
obscured by,the M54 Motorway (qv. Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916
0696). 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.
Under excavation at time of re-survey 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.