Kirkoswald moated site
-
Description
....Site is south-west of St Oswald's Church. The proximity to the church suggests either an early castle site or a fortified vicarage. However, the large size probably excludes this as a vicarage but the regular square form would exclude it as the early castle known to exist at Kirkoswald. However, Hugh de Morville was granted a licence to crenellate his manor house here in 1201, and work associated with that licence may have resulted in an alteration of the form of the earthworks of the earlier castle. A licence to crenellate of 1201 does not mean a fortified masonry castle was intended or built or that significant amounts of masonry were used in the domestic house that such licences usually resulted in. Hugh de Morville's house may still have been mainly timber in construction. However the licenced house is usually considered to be a precursor structure on the site of Kirkoswald castle the the details of the licence are recorded in the castle record. A castle is recorded as burnt by the Scots in 1314 after which Kirkoswald castle was built. It should be noted that..... -
Owner
Gatehouse Gazetter -
Source
Local (Co-Curate) -
License
What does this mean? Unknown license check permission to reuse
-
Further information
Link: https://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/557.html
Resource type: Text/Website
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
Viewed: 11 times
Picture Taken: Unknown -
Co-Curate tags