Skelton Castle
Skelton Castle can refer to either a ruined medieval castle or an 18th-century Gothic style country house that replaced it. The site of both buildings is the village of Skelton, in North Yorkshire, England. The house is Grade I listed.
Castle
The castle was built of stone by Robert de Brus in 1140. It had two look-out towers, dungeons, and a moat with a drawbridge and portcullis.[1]
In 1265 it was surrendered to
His son, Joseph Hall-Stevenson, died within a year of his father and thus Joseph's son John Hall-Stevenson (1766–1843) inherited the castle. In 1788 he changed his name to
Country house
The present house is built of dressed sandstone with a roof of Lakeland slate. It is a two-storey block with a 5-bay frontage. It incorporates some remains of the medieval castle. The house was built c.1770 and extended in 1810-1817 by Ignatius Bonomi.[5]
It was constructed between 1788 and 1817 for John Wharton,
See also
- Skelton Castle was an East Indiaman launched in 1800 that made three voyages for the British East India Company before disappearing without a trace in 1806 on her fourth.
References
- ^ a b "BBC-Domesday Reloaded-Skelton Castle". BBC. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
- ^ L. Melville, Some Eccentrics and a Woman (Martin Secker, London 1911) pp. 161-85 (Internet Archives).
- ^ Sidney Lee, Stevenson, John Hall- in Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), vol. 54
- ^ "Skelton Castle". Moors Knowledge. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
- ^ "Skelton Castle, Skelton and Brotton". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 22 February 2013.