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Latitude: 51.0369 / 51°2'12"N
Longitude: -2.0892 / 2°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 393838
OS Northings: 126396
OS Grid: ST938263
Mapcode National: GBR 2YL.SQR
Mapcode Global: FRA 66HC.ZV0
Plus Code: 9C3V2WP6+Q8
Entry Name: Walls of Bailey to Old Wardour Castle
Listing Date: 6 July 1987
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1318789
English Heritage Legacy ID: 320804
ID on this website: 101318789
Location: Old Wardour, Wiltshire, SP3
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Tisbury
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Tisbury St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Wall
DONHEAD ST. ANDREW WARDOUR PARK
ST 92 NW (east side)
4/21 Walls of bailey to Old Wardour
Castle
GV II*
Partly in Tisbury C.P. Bailey walls. Remodelled in 1570s for Sir
Matthew Arundell by Robert Smythson. Dressed limestone walls about
6 metres or more high, partially enclosing a hexagon with a
rectangular extension to the north-east, reflecting the plan of Old
Wardour Castle itself. Walls have chamfered plinth and pitched
copings, damage to north-west stretches attributed to siege damage
during the Civil War. Robert Smythson improved the castle and its
setting for the Arundells, shortly after he worked at Longleat for
Sir John Thynne.
(M. Girouard, Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House,
1972)
Listing NGR: ST9384626398
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