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Name:	NEWARK CASTLE
HER Number:	M3040
Type of record:	Building

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Monument Types

CASTLE (Med, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1546 AD)

Protected Status

Listed Building (I) 3.54.117: REMAINS OF NEWARK CASTLE
Scheduled Monument 90: Newark Castle

Full description

Rectangular plan stone castle on a cliff above the River Trent. The N gatehouse is the most elaborate of its kind in England with massive port and buttresses, chambers incorporating details of 1170-1180s AD, fine cushion capitals and early windows in upper chambers. Early masonry is visible in the W curtain wall which has a SW tower of some note. Traces of wall passages and Norman windows filled or cut by later works include a fine oriel window with views to the W. The Hall near the NW corner angle has a crypt with round headed arches. Much remodelling of the castle is evident with C15/C16 windows and castings over earlier features. (2)
The E walls have been completely levelled with internal structures but the ground drops away to the E and S indicating early ? Saxon/Norman defensive rampart. Below ground remains of the castle courtyard, the S walls, the NE walls, the E ramparts and ditches can be traced by the visitor (scheduled area extended --/07/1986 to cover these). The building lines to the S of the castle, along with hair cracks and lines of subsidence indicate substantial filled features including ditches. (2)
The whole of the castle grounds are now landscaped and open as public gardens. Restoration work underway. An excavation in 1984 outside the scheduled area to the S of the SW tower located another tower which may be part of a gateway. The base of that tower lines up with projecting masonry from the SW tower. Destruction of the new tower (Jenny's Tower) probably took place in the C14 with evidence of pottery, but how it fits in with the circuit of castle walls is not clear. (3)
Raised from c.1133 by … Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. A later bishop, perhaps Henry de Burghersh (1320-40), rebuilt the curtain wall, including the NW and central turrets. Archbishop … Thomas Rotherham (1471-80) [added] a two-storey oriel. Slight[ed] at the end of the Civil War. Salvin['s] restoration [was in] 1845-8. (16)
Modern buildings excluded. See publications for excavation details. (1) quoted on SAM form.
See L9866 for Neolithic finds, L9867 for Bronze Age finds, L9864 for Roman finds and features, L9865 for Saxon burials, L9868 for Saxon features, L10852, L10856, L10858-61, L10865-69, and L10871-77 for Medieval features, L10878 for post medieval features and L10879-80 for geophysical anomalies.

Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

6 BW prints, CUCAP BR 57 - 60, 77, 78, SMR

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

2 BW print, SMR

Listed buildings slides, 41 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

Gordon Stubbs NDC, Feb 1984, Newark Castle SW Tower (Plan). SNT4422.

<1> MOW, 819 (Published document). SNT929.

<2> Hart CR, 1984, AM107 (Unpublished document). SNT754.

<3> Samuels JR, 1985, AM107 (Unpublished document). SNT1230.

<4> Lawson Lowe AE, 1876, Black's Guide to Nottinghamshire (Published document). SNT875.

<5> Brown C, 1904, History of Newark (Published document). SNT526.

<6> Barley WM and Dixon PW, 1974, Council Rept (Published document). SNT452.

<7> Thoroton Society, 1935, TTS, pp 53-91 (Published document). SNT353.

<8> Thoroton Society, 1939, TTS, pp 22-56 (Published document). SNT356.

<9> Thoroton Society, 1955, TTS, pp 98-9 (Published document). SNT369.

<10> Thoroton Society, 1956, TTS, pp 20-33 (Published document). SNT370.

<11> Thoroton Society, 1973, TTS, pp 34-40 (Published document). SNT386.

<12> Thoroton Society, 1978, TTS, pp 72-3 (Published document). SNT391.

<13> Kinsley G, 1989, Newark's Archaeological Resource, App 1, pp 3-5 (Unpublished document). SNT40.

<14> CUCAP, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT594.

Other Refs: BR 57-60,77,78, Em D14, Spec Coll A ,

<15> NCC Archaeology Team, Site Book 4 (Unpublished document). SNT310.

<16> Pevsner N, 1997, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (with corrections), p 189-190 (Monograph). SNT1734.

<17> Hill P R, 14/11/1992, Report on Stone from Newark Castle (Unpublished document). SNT2052.

Related records

L9867	Parent of: BRONZE AGE FINDS FROM EXCAVATION AREA 3, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10858	Parent of: C12th DITCH AND RAMPART AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10856	Parent of: C12th RAMPART AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10876	Parent of: CASTLE RAMPART: EXCAVATION AREA 7, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
M18046	Parent of: EARLY MEDIEVAL BUILDING AT NEWARK CASTLE (Monument)
L10872	Parent of: EXCAVATION AREA 4, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10874	Parent of: EXCAVATION AREA 6, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10883	Parent of: EXCAVATION AREA A, 1998 AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10884	Parent of: EXCAVATION AREA B, 1998 AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10885	Parent of: EXCAVATION AREA E1, 1998 AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10888	Parent of: EXCAVATION AREA U, 1998 AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10873	Parent of: EXCAVATION, 1993 AREA 5, 1998 AREA C, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10879	Parent of: GEOPHYSICAL ANOMALY A AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10880	Parent of: GEOPHYSICAL ANOMALY B AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10886	Parent of: L10886 EXCAVATION AREA E2, 1998 AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10860	Parent of: MEDIEVAL DITCH AND POST HOLES AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10871	Parent of: MEDIEVAL FEATURES, EXCAVATION AREA 3, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10877	Parent of: MEDIEVAL FEATURES: EXCAVATION AREA 7, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10859	Parent of: MEDIEVAL FINDS FROM NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10865	Parent of: MEDIEVAL STRUCTURES AT BELL’S YARD, NEWARK (Element)
L10866	Parent of: MEDIEVAL WALL AT CUCKSTOOL WHARF, NEWARK (Element)
L9866	Parent of: NEOLITHIC FINDS FROM EXCAVATION AREA 3, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L3040	Parent of: NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10868	Parent of: NEWARK CASTLE BANK: EXCAVATION AREA 1, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10869	Parent of: NEWARK CASTLE BANK: EXCAVATION AREA 2, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10867	Parent of: NEWARK CASTLE DITCH: EXCAVATION AREA 1 AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10878	Parent of: POST MEDIEVAL FEATURES: EXCAVATION AREA 7, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L10861	Parent of: POST MEDIEVAL FINDS FROM NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
L9864	Parent of: ROMAN FINDS & DITCHES AT EXCAVATION AREA 3, NEWARK CASTLE (Element)
M18045	Parent of: SAXON CEMETERY AT NEWARK CASTLE (Monument)
L10852	Parent of: UNDERCROFT FOUNDATIONS AT NEWARK CASTLE (Element)

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