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Stainborough Castle

A Grade II* Listed Building in Stainborough, Barnsley

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5232 / 53°31'23"N

Longitude: -1.5251 / 1°31'30"W

OS Eastings: 431580

OS Northings: 403047

OS Grid: SE315030

Mapcode National: GBR KWSP.MS

Mapcode Global: WHCBR.JPZY

Plus Code: 9C5WGFFF+7X

Entry Name: Stainborough Castle

Listing Date: 18 March 1968

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1151069

English Heritage Legacy ID: 333925

ID on this website: 101151069

Location: Stainborough Park, Hood Green, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75

County: Barnsley

Civil Parish: Stainborough

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Silkstone All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


STAINBOROUGH WENTWORTH CASTLE
SE30SW
1/50 Stainborough Castle
18.3.68
- II*
Gothick folly. 1728-30 for Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Coursed,
dressed sandstone, ashlar dressings. Roughly-circular curtain wall with 4 square
guard towers and with large gatehouse on east side with archway originally beneath
4 circular turrets of which 2 remain. Remaining gatehouse towers have offset
buttresses and round-headed openings beneath deep band, round-headed lights on
each floor above. Wall linking towers has tall, rusticated, round-arched doorway
with concave reveals, impost band and keystone; 2nd floor band. Inner tower
incomplete above 4th storey; link wall and outer tower are embattled. Guard
towers: projecting sills to round-headed, ground-floor lights, quatrefoils beneath
embattled parapets. Much of curtain wall reconstructed and with embattlements.
Important as the 2nd Gothick castle in England after Lord Bathurst's "King Alfred's
Hall" in Oakley Wood, Cirencester. Built on hill fort site and formed climax of
the 1st Earl's garden layout. The towers were supposedly named after his 4
children; Anne, Harriet, Lucy and William. The building was already in disrepair
by 1755 when John Platt of Rotherham was engaged to rebuild part of the gatehouse.
Again undergoing reconstruction at time of resurvey.

J. E. Humphrey, 'A Prospect of Stainborough', unpub. thesis, Sheffield, 1982,
pp334-5 also appendix 27.


Listing NGR: SE3158003047

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