Cheveley Castle
{{Short description|Castle in Cambridgeshire, England}}
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Cheveley Castle was a medieval fortified manor house near Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, England.
Details
Cheveley Castle was built by Sir John Pulteney, a merchant-financier and Lord Mayor of London, around 1341 on the outskirts of the village of Cheveley.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18781 Cheveley: Manors and estate], A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002). Accessed: 20 May 2011. The castle was built in an Edwardian style, with four circular towers, gatehouse and a bailey wall, on an elaborate moated site north-west of the village. It is the only castle of its type to have been built in Cambridgeshire, and was probably intended less for defence than as a high-status hunting lodge - in the 14th century, Cheveley was at the centre of a deer park. The moat at Cheveley may have inspired other, similar moated designs across the eastern region.Creighton, p.195.
The castle deteroriated after the early 17th-century, and today only limited masonry remains exist on the site, which is a scheduled monument.[http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/143.html Cheveley Castle], Gatehouse website, accessed 20 May 2011.
See also
Bibliography
- Creighton, Oliver Hamilton. (2005) Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England. London: Equinox. {{ISBN|978-1-904768-67-8}}.
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