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Description: | Francis Grose, who published this print, appends a description of the ruins given to him by "an ingenious correspondent". The castle "appears to have been built with brick, faced on the outside with hewn stone. It's form was nearly square, surrounded with a deep fosse [ditch]. The front was probably towards the south-west, where the gate-way and tower are standing, as represented in the drawing. The tower, I apprehend, to have been a stair-case; but the stairs, which were I conjecture of wood, are gone; the tower at present is become a pigeon house; there is a ladder to ascend it, but it was so bad that I did not chuse to go up
.The stone with which it was faced, must have been brought thither by sea, for this country for a great distance affords none of that kind. The farm-house, which appears in perspective in the drawing, might have been part of the old castle, or may have been built from the ruins of it
.Towards the south east, part of a wall is standing on the brink of the fosse, covered with ivy; but I did not perceive any thing very curious or beautiful in it; from the station I made the drawing, it was concealed by the elm trees
.from the form of the arch on the great gate-way, I should conjecture it to have been built in the time of Hen. [Henry] VII."
The owner in 1785 was Mr Panton, who lived in Piccadilly. | 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: | pigeon house building dovecote ruin dovecot farmhouse Mr Panton castle Warblington Castle Warblington | Temporal: | start=1785-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | S Sparrow; S Hooper; Francis Grose | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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