Folkingham Castle

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Venue Type & Location

Private Residence

Site Name: Folkingham Castle
Location: Folkingham Castle
County: Lincolnshire
Location Type: Countryside - at determined location

Overview

The castle of the Beaumont family was located on a slope facing W on a main route N to Lincoln.

The large outer bailey was encircled by a wall and moat with a second moat around the rectangular inner bailey, with corner towers and a gatehouse entered from the W (Pevsner, Lincolnshire 283).

Extensive earthworks and the moat around the inner bailey mark the site.

Performance History

Possible performance venue. Entertainers belonging to Viscount Beaumont appeared elsewhere in the mid-15th c.

Current Status

Long demolished.

History of the Venue

1312 Manor and licence to crenellate granted to Henry Beaumont.

early 16th c. Castle ruinous as Leland noted in the 1530s: 'it hath bene a goodly house, but [now i]t fallith al to ruine. and it stondith even about the egge of the fennes' (Itinerary 1.25).

1825 A house of correction was built within the moat on the site of the castle.

1950s Prison mostly demolished. Only the gatehouse remains on the site.

Record Source

REED York 1.71--2, 75--6

Patrons who owned this venue

Name Dates Titles
Beaumont, John 1409-1460 6th Baron , 1st Viscount , Knight

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Bibliography ID 7080. 02/21/2008 (http://www.castleuk.net/)
  • King, David J. Cathcart. Castellarium Anglicanum: An Index and Bibliography of the Castles in England, Wales and the Islands. 2 vols. Millwood, NY, London and Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus International Publications, 1983.
  • Leland, John. The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the Years 1535–1543. Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed. 5 vols. London: Centaur, 1964.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, and John Harris. Lincolnshire. 1964. The Buildings of England. London: Penguin Books, 1998.
  • 'Report of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Lincoln in 1974.' Archaeological Journal 131 (1974): 268–382.
  • Salter, Mike. The Castles of the East Midlands. Malvern: Folly Publications, 2002.