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Latitude: 50.6876 / 50°41'15"N
Longitude: -1.3135 / 1°18'48"W
OS Eastings: 448594
OS Northings: 87774
OS Grid: SZ485877
Mapcode National: GBR 8BH.YHN
Mapcode Global: FRA 8748.83F
Plus Code: 9C2WMMQP+2J
Entry Name: Carisbrooke Castle
Listing Date: 1 February 1972
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1034657
English Heritage Legacy ID: 309434
ID on this website: 101034657
Location: Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, PO30
County: Isle of Wight
Civil Parish: Newport
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Isle of Wight
Church of England Parish: Carisbrooke St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth
Tagged with: Historic house museum Castle Local museum Independent museum
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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.
Listing NGR: SZ4855087719
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