Remains Of Tong Castle At Ngr Sj 7916 0693 is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Castle.
Remains Of Tong Castle At Ngr Sj 7916 0693
- WRENN ID
- white-storey-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Castle
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 70 NE 6/41
TONG C.P. NEWPORT ROAD Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0693
II
Castle, remains of. C12 to the C16. Fragmentary remains of sandstone walls on natural rock. The site is now divided into two, and largely obscured by the M54 Motorway (qv. Remains of Tong Castle at NGR SJ 7916 0696). 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. Under excavation at time of re-survey 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: SJ7911806897
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