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Latitude: 52.7235 / 52°43'24"N
Longitude: -2.9519 / 2°57'6"W
OS Eastings: 335806
OS Northings: 314403
OS Grid: SJ358144
Mapcode National: GBR B8.1FY3
Mapcode Global: WH8BJ.MTK0
Plus Code: 9C4VP2FX+96
Entry Name: Alberbury Castle, Remains of
Listing Date: 13 June 1958
Last Amended: 18 March 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1175344
English Heritage Legacy ID: 258922
ID on this website: 101175344
Location: Alberbury, Shropshire, SY5
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Alberbury with Cardeston
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Alberbury
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
SJ 3514 ALBERBURY WITH ALBERBURY
CARDESTON C.P.
12/17 Alberbury Castle, remains
13.6.58 of [formerly listed as
Fitzwarine Tower
(Alberbury Castle)]
GV II*
Castle, remains of. Probably early C13, for Fulk Fitz Warin (III).
Coursed Alberbury breccia with red sandstone dressings and evidence of
former limewashing. Remains of 2-storey keep to south-west (probably
formerly with first-floor hall) and irregularly-shaped bailey to north-east
bounded by wall approximately 175 metres long, 3 metres high, and one metre
wide. Keep: very ruinous, with remains of internal first-floor cill
string; round- and pointed-arched openings. Walling: battered lower
stages with remains of diagonal buttress to north-west and section of
chamfered plinth to west; C19 doorway to churchyard at the north-east
corner with pointed chamfered arch and nail-studded boarded door with
strap hinges; pointed-arched doorway to east with boarded door, round
rear-arch with rounded reveals and "1646" inscribed on tympanum; C19
doorway to west with moulded pointed arch and boarded door. Ralph the Fat
is the first recorded tenant of the Manor of Alberbury. Fulk Fitz Warin (I)
probably succeeded him. The castle forms part of a close group in the
village centre with the church (qv) and the garden walls adjoining to the
south (qv). County A.M. No.18. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, pp. 195-6; County
S.M.R., no. 270
Listing NGR: SJ3580614403
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