Kingerby Castle

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Kingerby Castle

Lincolnshire


Kingerby Hall
Type: Motte and bailey
Location
Grid reference: TF056928
Location: 53°25’17"N, 0°24’45"W
Town: Market Rasen
History
Information
Condition: Destroyed, replaced by
manor house and later house

Kingerby Castle was in the small settlement of Kingerby some five miles north-west of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.

The castle itself was a motte and bailey castle which was burnt down in 1216 by King John, before being fully destroyed in December 1218.[1] The motte was then altered to form a platform for a manor house which was built on the site. In 1812 the manor house was demolished and replaced by Kingerby Hall, which still stands on the site.[2][3]

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References

  1. Coulson, Charles (2004) (in en). Castles in Mediæval Society: Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages. Oxford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780199273638. https://books.google.com/books?id=J5bKbjMt15wC. Retrieved 27 September 2019. 
  2. National Monuments Record: No. 349955 – Kingerby Hall
  3. Fry, Plantagenet Somerset (1980). The David & Charles Book of Castles. David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3.