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Latitude: 50.6376 / 50°38'15"N
Longitude: -4.3624 / 4°21'44"W
OS Eastings: 233045
OS Northings: 84655
OS Grid: SX330846
Mapcode National: GBR NL.919R
Mapcode Global: FRA 17RD.29K
Plus Code: 9C2QJJQQ+23
Entry Name: The North Gatehouse of Launceston Castle and Attached Walls
Listing Date: 7 June 1993
Last Amended: 6 July 1993
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1280359
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369962
Also known as: Launceston Castle Keep and Attached Buildings
Launceston Castle motte, bailey and shell keep
ID on this website: 101280359
Location: Castle Green, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Launceston
Built-Up Area: Launceston
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Launceston
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Castle Norman architecture
LAUNCESTON
SX3284 CASTLE STREET
660-1/4/31 The North Gatehouse of Launceston
Castle and attached walls
GV I
Gatehouse of castle and attached walls. Mid/late C13, for
Richard of Cornwall, partly demolished 1764.
Slatestone rubble with lcoal greenstone and volanic stone
dressings. Square gateway with rectangular building on its
right (south). The outer face of the gateway has been cut
back; the inner (east) face is a 2-centred arch of 3 chamfered
orders; just inside the opening is the slot for an inner
portcullis; the ribed vault has 2 complete bays and part of a
third; there are weathered buttresses on either side. The
gateway is reduced to the level of the apex of the relieving
arch, (above this used to be a room for the constable).
Building adjoining to south has small window opening looking
into the bailey; there is evidence of 2 more openings and a
pointed-arched doorway from within the passage with an old oak
gate.
INTERIOR: wall cupboards to party wall; stone-lined pit to
south end of room, probably the base of a former C12 stone
tower, which has the springing stones of a later vault.
HISTORY: this room and its pit was later used as a prison,
most notably for the containment of George Fox, the founder of
the Quakers, when committed in 1656 for distributing a
religious paper near Land's End.
(Saunders AD: Launceston Castle: London: 1984-; Kelly's
Directories: Cornwall: 1902-: P.170).
Listing NGR: SX3304484656
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