List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHILLINGHAM CASTLE
List Entry Number: 1042387
Location
CHILLINGHAM CASTLE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Northumberland
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Chillingham
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 21-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 237509
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History
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Details
NU 0625 CHILLINGHAM CHILLINGHAM
17/43 Chillingham Castle
21/9/51
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Castle. C14 with C17, C18 and C19 alterations. John Patterson and Sir Jeffrey
Wyatville did work in early C19. Mostly dressed stone. Quadrilateral with 4
corner towers and linking ranges. Central courtyard. Late C19 service wing to
left. Entrance front has 3-bay centre which is of basement and 3 storeys, flanked
by higher towers with still higher turrets. Steps to projecting early Cl7 centre
piece with paired Tuscan columns on all 3 floors, framing, on ground floor, round-
headed doorway with moulded imposts, arch; and responds, and on 1st and 2nd floors,
2 renewed cross windows with another Tuscan column between them. Renewed cross
windows left and right of centrepiece on 2 upper floors. Slit windows on ground
floor. Frieze and cornice above each floor, blank arches on first two friezes,
lozenges above 2nd floor. Achievement of arms above top window;and 4 beasts with
shields stand in frontof embattled parapet. Sashes under hoodmould in towers.
In courtyard, early C17 two-storey addition; possibly rebuilt open arcade on
ground floor of segmental arches on square piers with small attached Ionic columns.
6 statues of Worthies on corbels above the piers: Staircase to 1st floor. Balcony
on 2nd floor.
Interior: Tunnel-vaulted basements to towers and ranges. Newel stairs in towers.
Early C17 ceiling with pendants, two elaborate C17 overmantel and a fine early
C18 white marble fireplace with satyr heads. Interior in poor repair.
Northumberland County History Vol X1V
Archeologia Aeliana : New Series Vol X1V 1891
Country Life Vol 33; Vol 121
Listing NGR: NU0616825795
Selected Sources
Books and journals'Country Life' in Country Life, ()
'Country Life' in Country Life, ()
'Archaeologia Aeliana' in Archaeologia Aeliana, , Vol. 14, (1891)
'Northumberland County History' in Northumberland County History, , Vol. 14, ()
OtherRegister of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 31 Northumberland,
Map
National Grid Reference: NU 06150 25784
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