Part of the bailey wall exists and a path on top of it leads up the motte to the castle entrance. The wall is a good example of herring-bone stone work. The early Norman buildings inside the castle have been replaced by brick over the many years that the castle has been lived in. When he died in around the lands were passed to Robert de Marmion who may have married Despencer's daughter or niece. The walls of the shell-keep are about seven feet thick and have enough room inside them for staircases.
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Built onto over the centuries by six different owning families, Tamworth Castle today spans medieval through Victorian architecture. The original castle dates to the early Norman period. The inner courtyard. Trying on armour in the Great Hall. However, they had to make some notable concessions and adaptations to the local environment.
Firstly, the motte , or the mound on which the castle stands, may well have been the previous handiwork of Lady Aethelflaed, rather than the Norman troops. They probably just added a bit more earth, to make it a tad taller. The Normans did build a bailey — although this round tower had decayed by the time of the Tudors, and only the foundations can be seen today. They also enclosed the castle with a shell-shaped Keep, which remains until today. It has a ft internal diameter — but note that the buildings that fill it are more modern.
The Normans also built a thick, stone causeway — crossing the moat and leading to the castle. The stones which form the causeway were laid at a 45 degree angle, and look rather like interwoven fish bones. The castle was surrounded with a deep, dry moat, which would have made it even tricker to attack the place. This tower spans three storeys, and the bottom may have been a cellar — or even used as a dungeon.
Tamworth Castle was an auspicious spot from the fore. The then-owner of the castle, Robert Marmion IV, was appointed as a justice in England, and travelled to France as part of his his role. It was the Ferrers Family who built the majority of these old buildings, back between to The castle had passed to them from its original owner, Norman Robert le Dispenser brilliantly named, huh! In the early 17th Century their services were rewarded with three visits by King James I.
It was besieged in June and fell to the Parliamentarians. The Royalists tried to regain the castle in , but were unsuccessful. In the century after the Civil War the castle was owned by the Shirleys and then by the Comptons, but neither family made it a residence and the castle was allowed to fall in to decay until the early 18th Century. George Townshend inherited the castle in the 18th Century and his son, also George, undertook a repair and renovation programme.
The Elizabethan wing was altered and all the Tudor bay windows were replaced by gothic style windows. The castle grounds were also landscaped to provide a pleasure garden. After George's death the castle passed through a number of hands and was rented out to various wealthy tenants, including Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet and founder of the modern police force.
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