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Description: | A large moated house round a courtyard. Built on the site of an older house by Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (The Blessed Margaret Pole, martyred by Henry VIII and whose empty tomb, prepared by herself, is in Christchurch Priory) between 1514 and 1526. Thomas Bertie is known to have carried out work here in 1518. It was all but destroyed in the Civil War, when its then owners, the Cotton family, were Catholics and Royalists. Much of the stone was taken for buildings in Havant and Emsworth.
All that survives is the inner south red-brick turret of the gatehouse (preserved perhaps as a navigational landmark as we are very near the sea), together with part of the abutting wall and frame of the four-centered arch. The turret is of brick with stone quoins, battlements and dressings, rising for an extra stage above the three storeys of the gatehouse. The whole rises above the surrounding farm buildings.
At the time of the print, the castle was fast mouldering into decay. The outline of the fosse (or ditch) can still be seen.
Reference:
Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 641 (description by David Lloyd). | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | farm Cotton family building Thomas Bertie ruin Warblingon castle Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury Warblington Castle The Blessed Margaret Pole | Temporal: | start=1801-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | J Nixon; S Sparrow; Edward Harding | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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