Northborough Manor House, also known as Northborough Hall or Northborough Castle Farmhouse, is a medieval fortified
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
, and Grade I
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
in the village of
Northborough in
Cambridgeshire
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,
England
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History
Northborough Castle was built between 1333 and 1336 by Roger Northburgh
Roger Northburgh (died 1358) was a cleric, administrator and politician who was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1321 until his death. His was a stormy career as he was inevitably involved in many of the conflicts of his time: military, dyna ...
, the Bishop of Lichfield
The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Wes ...
; of the original manor, only the gatehouse
A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the mo ...
and the hall still survive.[Emery (2007), pp.50-1, 84.] Some 16th and 17th-century extensions to the castle were made.[Northborough Castle]
, ''the Gatehouse webpage'', accessed 21 April 2011.
The manor was sold to James Claypole in 1565, and sold to Lord Fitzwilliam in 1681. It was reputedly visited by Oliver Cromwell.
See also
*Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050 ...
*List of castles in England
This list of castles in England is not a list of every building and site that has "castle" as part of its name, nor does it list only buildings that conform to a strict definition of a castle as a medieval fortified residence. It is not a li ...
References
Bibliography
*Astley, H. J. D. (1899) "Northborough church and manor house," in ''The Journal of the British Archaeological Association'' Vol. 5 pp. 129–40.
*Emery, Anthony. (2007)
Discovering Medieval Houses.
' Risborough, UK: Shire Publishing. .
*Emery, Anthony. (2006)
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Southern England.
' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN, 978-0-521-58132-5.
External links
Official website
Country houses in Cambridgeshire