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© Mr Mark Flowers LRPS
IoE Number:
307721
Location:
KENILWORTH CASTLE,
KENILWORTH, WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Mark Flowers LRPS
Date Photographed:
02 September 1999
Date listed:
10 November 1971
Date of last amendment:
10 November 1971
Grade
I
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Kenilworth Castle
1.
1270
SP 2772 SE 7/1
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2.
Important early C12 Keep with some of the earliest meurtrieres in
existence. Early C13 curtain walls and towers. Late C14, circa
1391 by Robert Skyllington, banqueting hall comparable with Westminster
Fall, though ruinous; domestic buildings etc. Late C16 barbican
gatehouse converted 1650 by Colonel Hawksworth into a residence
(inhabited by Lord Kenilworth). Late C16 timber-framed barn embodying
castle curtain wall. Associations with John of Gaunt, Queen Elizabeth,
etc. Scheduled AM.