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© Rev Robert Rudd
IoE Number:
309434
Location:
CARISBROOKE CASTLE,
NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT, ISLE OF WIGHT
Photographer:
Rev Robert Rudd
Date Photographed:
17 November 2000
Date listed:
01 February 1972
Date of last amendment:
01 February 1972
Grade
I
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1445 Carisbrooke Castle
SZ 4887 NW 11/9
SZ 4887 NE 12/9
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Official residence of the Governor of the Isle of Wight. Substantial
remains of castle of C11/C12 foundation with additions in the C14, C15
and C16. Pre-Domesday earthworks round the inner enceinte and at their
foot to the east and west, remains of a late Roman masonry wall, near
the North-Eastern corner, a shallow semi-circular bastion and in the
middle of the east side traces of an inturned gate. Ruins considerably
restored in the C19. Chapel rebuilt 1904-5 by Percy Goddard Stone,
retaining base of C13 buttresses. Charles I was imprisoned in the castle
1647-48. His daughter Princess Elizabeth died there and is buried in
St Thomas's Church, St Thomas's Square qv. A.M.