- Type
- Ruin
- Built
- 1305 · 14th century
- Location
- England, United Kingdom
- Coordinates
- 52.4182°, -1.4517°
History
A house stood here before the Norman Conquest and later passed to the Earls of Chester; around 1232 Ranulf de Blondeville gave it to Stephen de Segrave, Chief Justiciar of England. In 1305 John de Segrave received Edward I's licence to fortify the house and surround it with a wall and moat, and in 1354 the castle was rebuilt again. Towards 1400 its owner was Thomas de Mowbray, the first Duke of Norfolk, and in 1398 he was due to fight a duel near Coventry with Henry Bolingbroke, until Richard II exiled them both; from then on the castle decayed. Around 1580 Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, rebuilt it as a mansion, but in 1662, when Charles II punished Coventry for siding with Parliament, the building was almost destroyed. In about 1800 its stone was used for a farmhouse, and after the First World War most of the former estate disappeared under housing.
What to see
Above ground only a large section of grey sandstone wall survives, probably from the rebuilding of 1354, with two tall traceried windows framed in red sandstone and two smaller windows below that point to a vaulted undercroft. The ruin stands in the small public Caludon Castle Park in Wyken, owned by Coventry City Council. The park also shows parts of the dry, partly filled moat and other earthworks, and about 190 m to the south lies a second moated site, protected in its own right.
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