Carisbrooke Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1972. A C11/C12 foundation Castle. 1 related planning application.

Carisbrooke Castle

WRENN ID
salt-ember-fern
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1972
Type
Castle
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. 1445 Carisbrooke Castle

SZ 4887 NW 11/9 SZ 4887 NE 12/9

I

  1. Official residence of the Governor of the Isle of Wight. Substantial remains of castle of C11/C12 foundation with additions in the C14, C15 and C16. Pre-Domesday earthworks round the inner enceinte and at their foot to the east and west, remains of a late Roman masonry wall, near the North-Eastern corner, a shallow semi-circular bastion and in the middle of the east side traces of an inturned gate. Ruins considerably restored in the C19. Chapel rebuilt 1904-5 by Percy Goddard Stone, retaining base of C13 buttresses. Charles I was imprisoned in the castle 1647-48. His daughter Princess Elizabeth died there and is buried in St Thomas's Church, St Thomas's Square qv. A.M.

Listing NGR: SZ4855087719

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