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© Mr John Cousens
IoE Number:
389694
Location:
THE CASTLE,
LUDLOW, SOUTH SHROPSHIRE, SHROPSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr John Cousens
Date Photographed:
09 June 2004
Date listed:
15 April 1954
Date of last amendment:
15 April 1954
Grade
I
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LUDLOW
SO5074 The Castle
825-1/1/72
15/04/54
GV I
Castle. c1085, with C11 to C17 additions. Stone rubble.
Approximately square, with Inner Bailey in north-west corner.
C12 Outer Bailey and Gatehouse, and C13 semi-circular
Mortimer's Tower to west side; C14 Chapel of St Peters and C16
Courthouse to south. C17 lodgings. Inner Bailey has surviving
C12 walls, towers and Gatehouse-Keep with Norman windows and
interior blank arcading; C16 building to east; C12 circular
nave of Chapel of St Mary, with much carving; C14 Hall range.
Seat of President of Council of the Marches, 1501-1689. In 1501
Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon were sent to keep court at
Ludlow Castle, where in 1502 Prince Arthur died. Location of the
Jeste of Fulke Fitzwarine. Milton's "Comus" first performed
here in 1634.
(Archaeologia: St. John Hope WH: The Castle of Ludlow:
PP.257-350; Archaeological Journal: Faulkner PA: Domestic
Planning from the C12th to C14th: PP.177-179; Castles in Wales
and the Marches: Renn D: Chastel de Dynan; the first phases of
Ludlow: 1987-: PP.55-74).