Structure Name: Lumley Castle

Description:
 

Castle incorporating the remains of an early medieval manor house and a 15th century chapel. The castle itself is roughly square, with four large buttressed rectangular corner towers, and is built around a square central courtyard accessed through a gatehouse and vaulted passage on the east side. The main ranges of the castle, now an hotel, are three storeys high, rising to four storeys in the corner towers, which are crenellated, and each have four octagonal corner turrets.
 

Extant: Yes

Legal Status: Listed Building Grade I

Location: Lumley Castle, DURHAM

Eastings: 428780m (view map)

Northings: 551070m (view map)

Position Accuracy: 50m

Positional Confidence: Absolute Certainty

Structure Types Identified: CASTLE, CHAPEL, HOTEL, MANOR HOUSE

Chronology:

• 14TH CENTURY AD   Construction of castle.
• 1389   License to crenellate granted to John Lumley.
      Entities Involved:
            Lumley, John: Owner of Lumley Castle.
• 1392   License to crenellate granted by Richard II.
      Entities Involved:
            King Richard II: Granted license.
• 1432   Construction of chapel on the first floor of the northeast tower.
      Entities Involved:
            Cardinal Thomas Langley: Authorised the construction of a chapel at Lumley.
• 1570 - 1580   Minor alterations by John Lumley. Some windows replaced.
      Entities Involved:
            Lumley, John: Owner.
• 1721   Minor alterations, including the library, by Vanbrugh. Some windows replaced.
      Entities Involved:
            Sir John Vanbrugh: Architect.

References:

• Durham County Council SMR
• Images of England
• Keys To The Past
• Keys To The Past
• Pevsner, N. and Williamson, E. (1985) The Buildings of England: County Durham. 2nd ed., London, Yale University Press, pp.357-362

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