Remains Of Tong Castle At Ngr Sj 7916 0696

SJ 70 NE 6/40

TONG C.P. NEWPORT ROAD (West side)

Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0696.

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Castle, remains of. C14 to circa 1765. Sandstone and red brick on natural rock. Fragmentary remains of stables and outbuildings including barrel vaulted cellars and part of newel staircase. The site is now divided into two, and largely obscured, by the M54 Motorway (qv. Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0693). George Durant the elder (d.1780) demolished most of Sir Harry Vernon's circa 1500 castle in 1764 and replaced it with 'Capability' Brown's Gothick Castle in 1765, which was, in turn demolished in 1954. Recently excavated by the Shropshire Archaeological Society with report to follow (qv. Convent Lodge, wall with pulpit approximately 10 metres to East of Convent Lodge, The Old Post Office, former North gates and flanking walls). N. Pevsner, B.O.E. Shropshire, p.304; G. Griffith, History of Tong and Boscobel, 1894, pp. 89-92 and pp.154-61; D. H. Robinson, The Wandering Worfe, Waine Research Publications, 1980, pp. 56-9.

Listing NGR: SJ7924606936