Corfe Castle: a large enclosure castle, and 18th century Vineyard Bridge
Designated
26 March 1975; 49 years ago (1975-03-26)
Reference no.
1011487[1]
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name
Corfe Castle
Designated
20 November 1959; 64 years ago (1959-11-20)
Reference no.
1121000
Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The first phase was one of the earliest castles in England to be built at least partly using stone when the majority were built with earth and timber. Corfe Castle underwent major structural changes in the 12th and 13th centuries.
In 1572, Corfe Castle left the Crown's control when Elizabeth I sold it to Sir Christopher Hatton. Sir John Bankes bought the castle in 1635, and was the owner during the English Civil War. While Bankes was fighting in London and Oxford, his wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces. The first siege, in 1643, was unsuccessful, but by 1645 Corfe was one of the last remaining royalist strongholds in southern England and fell to a siege ending in an assault. In March that year Corfe Castle was slighted on Parliament's orders. Owned by the National Trust, the castle is open to the public and in 2018 received around 237,000 visitors.[2] It is protected as a Grade I listed building[3] and a Scheduled Monument.[4]
^Corfe Castle, Historic England. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
^"ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
^"Corfe Castle: a large enclosure castle, and 18th century Vineyard Bridge, Corfe Castle - 1011487 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
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