- Type
- Castle
- Built
- c. 1434 · 15th century
- Site origins
- 1231 per Wikidata – an earlier stronghold or first mention
- Location
- England, United Kingdom
- Commissioned by
- Ralph de Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell
- Visiting
- probably – Wikidata lists it as a museum or gives tickets, opening hours or visitor numbers; check before you go
- Coordinates
- 53.1013°, -0.1926°
History
The first stone castle here was built in 1231 by Robert de Tattershall. Around 1434 Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England, took over the estate and raised a grand brick tower house surrounded by moats – one of the earliest examples of English brick building on such a scale. Cromwell also founded the nearby collegiate church of the Holy Trinity. After centuries of changing owners the castle fell into neglect, and in 1911 its Gothic fireplaces were ripped out for sale. Lord Curzon then bought it, recovered the fireplaces, restored the tower and in 1925 bequeathed it to the National Trust.
What to see
The tower rises more than 30 metres, with four floors of great halls stacked one above another and linked by a spiral stair in a corner turret. The halls keep their stone chimneypieces carved with coats of arms and a purse – the emblem of the Treasurer's office. The roof with its machicolated gallery looks out over the flat Lincolnshire fields, and the castle is ringed by moats beside the collegiate church.
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