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: WALLS, TOWERS AND GATEHOUSE OF THE INNER BAILEY AT BEESTON CASTLE
List Entry Number: 1330329
Location
WALLS, TOWERS AND GATEHOUSE OF THE INNER BAILEY AT BEESTON CASTLE, CASTLE ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cheshire West and Chester
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Beeston
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 01-Mar-1967
Date of most recent amendment: 03-Apr-1986
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 55798
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SJ 55 NW BEESTON C.P. (Off) CASTLE ROAD
5/8 Walls, towers and
gatehouse of the Inner
1.3.67 Bailey at Beeston
Castle. (Formerly listed
as Beeston Castle)
GV I
Walls, gatehouse and towers of inner bailey. c1220 altered late
C13/early C14. Built by Ranulf de Blundeville, 7th Earl of Chester.
Crudely coursed red sandstone. Roughly rectangular enclosure of which
approximately half is now demolished. Entrance front: central
gateway with D-shaped towers with lateral arrow slits and central
pointed gate-arch with rebate. The left-hand turret has the voussoirs
of a blocked pointed arch to the lower wall. To the left is curtain
walling with the lower courses of a further D-shaped tower. To the
right is a similar stretch of walling roughly repaired with rubble at
its centre with a D-shaped tower slightly to the left of the right
hand corner. The right hand (eastern) wall has a similar D-shaped
tower to the centre of the wall.
On the death of Ranulf de Blundeville's nephew the castle passed to
the Crown. In the late C13 and early C14 Edward I carried out
modernising alterations including raising the height of the inner
bailey walls and crenellating them. By the late C16 Leland described
the castle as "shattered and ruinous". In 1643 it was partially
repaired and occupied by parliamentary troops and taken by Royalist
forces in the same year. It was partially demolished in 1646 to
prevent its repeated use as a stronghold. Archaeological evidence of
Bronze and Iron age settlements on the site has been found.
Listing NGR: SJ5370659267
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Map
National Grid Reference: SJ 53700 59266
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