Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0693
REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0693, NEWPORT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176612
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0693
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0693, NEWPORT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176612
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0693
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0693, NEWPORT ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF TONG CASTLE AT NGR SJ 7916 0693, NEWPORT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tong
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7911806897
Details
SJ 70 NE
6/41
TONG C.P.
NEWPORT ROAD
Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0693
II
Castle, remains of. C12 to the C16. Fragmentary remains of sandstone
walls on natural rock. The site is now divided into two, and largely
obscured by the M54 Motorway (qv. Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916
0696). George Durant the elder (d. 1780) demolished most of Sir Harry
Vernon's circa 1500 castle in 1764 and replaced it with 'Capability'
Brown's Gothick Castle in 1765, which was, in turn, demolished in 1954.
Under excavation at time of re-survey by the Shropshire Archaeological
Society with report to follow (qv. Convent Lodge, wall with pulpit
approximately 10 metres to East of Convent Lodge, The Old Post Office,
former North gates and flanking walls). N. Pevsner, B.O.E. Shropshire,
p.304; G. Griffith, History of Tong and Boscobel, 1894, pp. 89 - 92 and
pp. 154-61; D. H. Robinson, The Wandering Worfe, Waine Research
Publications, 1980, pp. 56-9.
Listing NGR: SJ7911806897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255317
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, D H, The Wandering Worfe, (1980), 56-59
Griffith, G, History of Tong and Boscobel, (1894), 89-92
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 304
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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