Hornby Castle, Lancashire
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Southwest front of Hornby Castle
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| Location | Hornby, Lancashire, England |
| Coordinates | 54°06′41″N 2°37′56″W / 54.1114°N 2.6323°WCoordinates: 54°06′41″N 2°37′56″W / 54.1114°N 2.6323°W |
| OS grid reference | SD 588,686 |
| Founded | 13th century |
| Rebuilt | About 1720 |
| Restored | 1847–50 |
| Restored by | Pudsey Dawson |
| Architect | Sharpe and Paley |
| Architectural style(s) | Gothic, Gothic Revival |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Official name: Hornby Castle | |
| Designated | 4 October 1967 |
| Reference no. | 1317655 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: Terrace wall on southeast and southwest sides of Hornby Castle | |
| Designated | 4 December 1985 |
| Reference no. | 1071687 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name: No 54, pairs of gate piers and walls adjoining former entrance to Hornby Castle Drive | |
| Designated | 4 December 1985 |
| Reference no. | 1071654 |
 Location in the City of Lancaster district
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Hornby Castle is a country house, developed from a medieval castle, standing to the east of the village of Hornby in the Lune Valley, Lancashire, England. It occupies a position overlooking the village in a curve of the River Wenning. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
It is thought that the castle was originally built for the Neville family in the 13th century; this is the most likely date of the base of the tower at the back of the castle. The polygonal tower rising from this base dates from the 16th century, and was built probably for Sir Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Monteagle. His son, the second Baron Monteagle, took part in suppressing the Rising of the North in 1536. The third Baron Monteagle sold off a lot of the land and on his death in 1581 was succeeded by an only daughter, Elizabeth, who married Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley. Their son William was made the fourth Baron Monteagle and became famous as the peer who was forewarned about the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. His son Henry was a zealous Royalist at the start of the Civil War and his estates were afterwards declared forfeit and sold. During the war itself, the castle was captured by Colonel Assheton in 1643 and occupied in 1648 by the Duke of Hamilton and his Scottish army. Although the castle was afterwards recovered by the family, Henry's son Thomas was forced by straitened financial circumstances to sell the castle to Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan in 1663. Brudenell's grandson sold it in 1713 to the infamous Colonel Charteris. His daughter Janet married James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss and gave the castle to their second son Francis (who took the surname of Charteris) and remodelled the castle in about 1720. In 1789 Charteris sold Hornby to John Marsden, known as "Silly Marsden", of Wennington Hall, who was under the control of his aunt and her husband, the ambitious George Wright. Marsden sold Wennington to pay for Hornby. After a long legal battle over Marsden's will (he had died in 1826), Admiral Sandford Tatham regained control of the property in 1838 from George Wright's family. He died in 1840, leaving it to his nephew Pudsey Dawson the younger, High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1845.
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