Giusburn

Tower

14th C

Templar preceptory

SE 864 294

Le Patourel : A2(b), with dykes to River Humber, and adjacent enclosures. Templar preceptory held by Edward II from 1322 ~ 1326. Ditches repaired or constructed in 1322.

Op. cit in note 186, p. 937, The Templar preceptory was one of the most highly valued in the county in 1308 (£290 4s 10d), but it is not certain whether it was then moated. Neither is it clear whether the dykes 'repaired against the River Humber' were part of the manorial earthworks or the river bank, though an entry in the Close Rolls (Cal. Close Rolls Edw II 1318~23, p. 585) suggest the former. May have had defensive features.

Motte & Bailey

Castellarium Anglicanum : Motte and perhaps bailey, much damaged.

Motte

13th C

Hastings

Hastings : Or, a maunch gules with a crescent for difference

Ferriby (North)
Hull

Templar Priory

Though many histories have this as a Templar site, this is in error - see VCH

May have had defensive features

Flamborough
TA 226703
Bridlington

Fortified Manor

14th C

Constable

Quartered gules and vair, overall a bend or

Castellarium Anglicanum : Base of a square tower, traces of domestic additions, licensed 1351 and 1352. By Leland's time - only 'a manor place'

Flamborough Number 2
TA 227699
Bridlington

A possible early site for above

Foss

Whitby

Motte and Bailey

11th C

Fossard
Gilling (East)
SE 611768
Helmsley

Pele Tower

14th C

de Etton, Fairfax

de Etton : Barry of six, argent and gules with a canton sable charged with a cross paty or. :

Fairfax:Argent, three bars gemmel gules, overall a lion rampant sable.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Enormous square tower of late 14^th century, built up in later house, so that little remains but the vaulted base.

Gilling (west)
NZ 197051
Richmond

Tower

Gisburn in Craven
SD 830508
Barnoldswick

Motte

11th C

Percy

Also called Castle Haugh this is a very small motte 25ft high, but as it even now retains its breast work on the summit was definitely defensive. Originally part of William de Percy's fief in Domesday when it was described as waste.

Givendale manor
SE 337693
Ripon

Motte

Grange Castle
NZ 184076
Melsonby

Likely Tower house

Great Ribstone
WR

Manor House

Percy, Pagnel, Lords Ross, Knights Templar

May have had defensive features

Grimethorpe
WR

Moated fortified house

Grimston
ER
Hedon

Manor House

Grimston

Original hall destroyed by fire 17^th C. House on island, DMV

Hackfall
WR

Possible Motte

Mowbray?

Might be Roman in origin

Hampole
WR
SE 512104
Doncaster

Mound

Hangthwaite/Adwick le Street
WR
SE 551067
Doncaster

Motte & Bailey with weak outworks

Harewood
SE 321457
Harewood House

Fortified Manor

14thC

de Aldeborough, Redmayne, Gascoigne

de Aldbro' : Azure, a fess argent between three cross crossletts or.

Redmayne : Gules, three lozenge cushions ermine tasselled or.

Gascoigne:Argent, on a pale sable a luce's head erect, couped, or.

The strongly fortified manor house of Harewood Castle was built on a rectangular plan c1365 mostly by Sir William de Aldbough, {on the estate he had acquired from Robert de L'isle,} possibly as a pele tower which developed in an unusual way. The license to crenellate was granted to Sir William in 1366 by Edward III.

Harewood Number 2
SE 296463
Weeton

called Rougemont

Enclosure with large outer bailey. Appears to have been earlier dwelling of the lords of Harewood.

Harpham
ER

Church bell tower

1374 License to Crenellate

Joan St. Quentin

Originally a Norman church remodelled in the 14th century. License to crenellate the bell tower was granted to Joan St. Quentin in 1374 [Pevsner]

Harsley
SE 998426
Northallerton

Fortified Manor

Strangway

Sable, two lions passant in pale, paly of six argent and gules with a canton of the second

Leland states : these men be of most name in Northallertonshire, Strangway of Harsley, where Stangway the judge builded a praty (pretty) castle.

Harswell
SE 821408

Fortified Manor

13thC

Salvayn

Licensed to crenellate granted 1247

Hatfield
WR

Manor House

Haverah Park
SE 219546
Harrogate

Tower & Ditch

14th C

Dukes of Lancaster

France ancient and England quarterly, a label of three points each with three ermine

Also called John o'Gaunt's castle, earthworks show a square platform 100ft each side surrounded by a 9ft deep ditch. An opening at the south eastern side suggests a gateway. A rectangular summit with 50ft sides within the platform indicate the presence of a great tower or other structure. Minimal amounts of masonry survive, documents suggest that the existing masonry date from 1334.

Hazlewood
SE 449399
Tadcaster

Enclosure

13th C

Vavasour

Or, a fess dancettee sable (in dexter chief a cross crosslett sable for difference)

License to crenellate granted 1290.

Castellarium Anglicanum : ".. Including the hall and a small square tower of the 15^th C."

Healaugh
SE 499480
Thorp Arch

Mound

Hedon
Hull

Possibly Twyer

Leland states : And not far from this church (St. Augustin's) appeareth tokens of a pile or castle that was sometime there for the defence of the town.

Hellifield
SD 858556
Skipton

Pele Tower

15th C Licensed 1441

DeKnoll

Hamerton

Argent, three hammers sable

Helmsley
SE 611836

Great Tower & Curtain

12th c

Roos, Crown, Manners, Villiers

Roos : Gules, three water bougets argent.

Manners : Or, two bars azure and a quartered chief of azure with two fleur-de-lis or, and gules with a leopard passant guardant or.

Villiers : Argent, a cross gules, with five escollops or thereupon.

The existing castle was possibly built on the site of an earlier fortification dating back to Roman times. The present ruins however are attributed to Robert de Roos, Lord of Helmsley between 1186 and 1227. The castle was an enclosure of two wards, the earliest containing a D plan great tower and enclosing an area of 11/2 acres whilst the outer ward contains 4&3/4 acres. The whole is surrounded by a network of curtain walls and a relatively immense ditch system.

Hinderskelf
SE 716700
Castle Howard

Courtyard castle

Bigod, Crown, Basset, Greystock, Howard

Bygod : Or, a cross gules charged with five escollops argent :

Basset : Argent, two bars undee sable. :

Graystoke : Barry of six argent and azure, three chapletts gules. :

Leland states : Two miles by ferry to a beck called Crambeck, comming from Hinderskelf castle standing in ground full of springs. ... Hiderskelf is three miles from Malton. ..... There is a fair quadrant of stone having four towers built castle like, but it is no ample thing. The latter building of it seemeth to have been made by the Greystoke, whose lands the Lord Dacre now hath.

Hood (Hode)
SE 504814
Thirsk

Enclosure

DeVille

13th C

Castellarium Anglicanum : Mentioned 1218 when partially ruined, apparently an adulterine castle of 1215 - 16. Licensed to crenellate 1264.

Hooton Pagnell
WR

Fortified house

14^th C. gatehouse though much of the embattlements are 19^th C.

Hornby
NZ 226938
Catterick

Fortified Manor

14th C

Hornby, St. Quentin, Conyers, Darcy, Osborne

St.Quentin : Or, a chevron gules, a chief vair :

Conyers : Azure, a maunch or, a crescent for difference in chief or, surmounted by another gules :

Darcy : Azure crusilly with three cinqfoils argent. :

Osborne:Quarterly ermine and azure, a cross or.

Leland states: "The Lorde Conyes hathe a Castell in Richmondshire caullyd Horneby and ther is his usual dwellynge."

Castellarium Anglicanum : Courtyard castle, apparently of the late 15^th C. and of the Northern quadrangular form, with four angle towers ; apparently expanded from a late 14^th C tower.

Hornsea
ER
TA 187473

Mound

There is some suggestion that this was an ecclesiastical site.

Howden
SE 748282
Selby

Church Manor

14th C

Bishops of Durham

Le Patourel : Bishop of Durham's manor house. According to survey of 1561 pasture to S. in 'myddest of which ground, enclosed by a great ditch, was an orchard with a fruit house sett on the north side of the same, over a draw-bridge at the entry into the same orchard.'

Note : J. Bilson, 'The manor house of the Bishop of Durham at Howden', Y.A.J., XXII (1913), 256~69, publishes a plan of the house and ref's to it's earlier history.

Howley Hall
Morley

Mansion

Saville : Argent, on a bend sable, three owls of the first with due difference

ECW

Huddersfield
WR

May be ALMONDBURY

Possible Motte

Hunmanby
TA 095775
Filey

Motte and Bailey

de Gant, Percy

de Gant : Barry of six or and azure, a bend gules. :

Percy : Or, a lion rampant azure

Hunsingore
WR

Possible Motte

Motte/Goudricke the Templar Presbitary

Hunslett
WR

Manor House

Gascoigne, Neville

Hutton Colswain
SE 763674

Fortified Manor

Le Patourel : A4, raised, with internal banks and dry moats.

Note : This site is listed as a castle in D. F. Renn, 'Norman Castles in England' (London 1968), p. 207, though the given grid ref. Is incorrect. It seems however to be more of a manor house than a castle. It was excavated by M. W. Thompson, 'Excavation of the Fortified medieval hall of Hutton Colswain' Archaeol. J. CXIV (1959), 69~81.

Hutton Conyers
SE 325735
Ripon

Fortified Manor

The earthworks and ditch system of Hutton Conyers is not dis-similar to that of Helmsley. Its provenance however is totally different, erected by Alan the Black, it was thrown up during the anarchy and provides a flagrant example of a Robber Castle as it's purpose was to extract tribute from the citizens of Ripon. It was destroyed, as were hundreds of other castle built for similar illegal purposes, by Henry II. The square platform which was defended by the ditches, could have held a timber built tower or hall.

Hutton's Ambro
SE 763674
Malton

Fortified Manor. Excavated in the 1950's, traces of timber hall of 12^th C, and a later stone wall.

Ingleby Barwick
NZ 432129
Middlesbrough

Motte & Bailey

Text compiled and edited by Richard Hayton

Heraldry rendered by Richard Hayton