Wardour Castle or Old Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew...
15 KB (1,628 words) - 10:14, 5 October 2023
New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian...
12 KB (1,401 words) - 03:29, 11 August 2024
of art and accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle. He had no sons and was succeeded by his cousin, the ninth Baron. He...
7 KB (836 words) - 08:24, 17 February 2023
Arundell of Wardour (née Lady Blanche Somerset; 1583 or c. 1584 – 28 October 1649) was an English noblewoman, known as the defender of Wardour Castle, that...
6 KB (590 words) - 17:10, 8 May 2024
Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 1560 – 7 November 1639) was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (ca. 1532/1534...
17 KB (2,026 words) - 18:24, 26 October 2024
Cranborne Chase School (section Wardour facilities)
school. The school closed in July 1990. At New Wardour Castle (not to be confused with Wardour Castle) there were dormitories for girls in the 1st to...
7 KB (580 words) - 08:22, 25 December 2023
Civil War. In May 1643 the parliamentarians wrested his ancestral home Wardour Castle, in Wiltshire, from his mother Lady Blanche Arundell who was defending...
13 KB (1,445 words) - 16:45, 2 August 2023
Wardour may refer to: Vale of Wardour, a valley in Wiltshire, England Wardour, Wiltshire, a village and former parish Wardour Castle, a ruined castle...
368 bytes (75 words) - 10:02, 26 February 2018
initially called the "Temple of Venus" Wardour Castle, 1770s. Built besides the newly picturesque ruins of the "Old Castle", a victim of the English Civil War...
5 KB (622 words) - 06:33, 16 March 2024
of art, he accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, designed in the Palladian style by Giacomo Quarenghi. A...
4 KB (284 words) - 12:04, 29 July 2024
Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (c. 1532-34 – 24 December 1598), known between 1552 and 1554 as Matthew Howard and after his death...
13 KB (1,400 words) - 07:36, 29 August 2024
Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, England, was besieged twice during the First English Civil War; once in May 1643, and then again between November 1643 and...
21 KB (2,576 words) - 14:48, 1 August 2024
having mistaken a long s for an l. At Wardour, some 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Tisbury, the 14th-century Wardour Castle was badly damaged in the 1640s during...
40 KB (4,307 words) - 11:33, 5 November 2024
John Francis Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour JP TD (18 June 1907 – 25 September 1944) was a British soldier and member of the House of Lords...
4 KB (319 words) - 16:55, 11 July 2024
English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour by his second wife Anne Philipson, and wife of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron...
7 KB (514 words) - 16:45, 27 September 2024
Castle, Mereworth Castle, New Wardour Castle, Sherborne Castle, Wentworth Castle, and Wisbech Castle. Many other buildings with some castle-like features...
244 KB (9,366 words) - 12:35, 23 October 2024
rally on the slopes of Castle Yard (also known as Wadborough Hill), a wooded hill with the ruins of a motte and bailey castle, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km)...
26 KB (3,135 words) - 18:12, 18 August 2024
Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (c. 1502 – 26 February 1552) was a Cornish administrator and alleged conspirator. Arundell was connected...
11 KB (1,183 words) - 09:00, 29 August 2024
relieve several garrisons (including Banbury, Basing House and Donnington Castle, near Newbury), which had been isolated while he had been campaigning in...
15 KB (1,842 words) - 13:39, 9 July 2024
Green Drive Railway Viaduct in Seaham, Tees Transporter Bridge, New Wardour Castle and Theatre Royal in Haymarket. Daldry remarked in an interview: "The...
44 KB (3,490 words) - 14:33, 11 November 2024
French-influenced palatial castles featuring complex tower keeps at Wardour, Tattershall and Raglan Castle. In central and eastern England castles began to be built...
148 KB (19,484 words) - 20:48, 12 June 2024
the ancient family of de Arundel of Lanherne, Cornwall and later of Wardour Castle. The arms borne by Reinfred de Arundel (d.c.1280), lord of the manor...
12 KB (1,493 words) - 23:32, 19 October 2024
Seacroft Moor Camp Hill Lichfield Ripple Field Reading Sourton Down 1st Wardour Castle Stratton Wakefield 1st Worcester Chalgrove Field Adwalton Moor 2nd Bradford...
15 KB (1,734 words) - 19:24, 22 October 2024
and Westmoreland. He arrived at the Royalist garrison at Knaresborough Castle 14 mi (23 km) north-west of York on 30 June. The allies were aware of Rupert's...
57 KB (7,832 words) - 11:12, 10 September 2024
Howard (c.1515–10 October 1572), who married Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle, and had issue Sir Matthew Arundell Charles Arundell Catherine Howard...
11 KB (1,290 words) - 02:15, 17 May 2024
and his house on Park Lane, London. From 1770 to 1776, he built New Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (which featured as the Royal Ballet School in the film...
18 KB (2,147 words) - 11:52, 28 September 2024
in 1240. The Wardour estate occupies the northeast of the parish. Wardour Castle, built in the 1390s and now known as Old Wardour Castle, straddles the...
7 KB (698 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2024
Aude, France, for the portrayal of Nottingham and its castle. Locksley Castle was Wardour Castle in Wiltshire—restored in an early shot using a matte painting...
44 KB (3,719 words) - 03:35, 7 November 2024
of Wardour Castle, beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1552, and by him had two sons, Sir Matthew Arundell (d. 24 December 1598) of Wardour Castle, and...
19 KB (2,010 words) - 01:23, 11 July 2024
defensive arc with detachments on the high ground to the north at Restormel Castle and the high ground to the east at Beacon Hill. Essex also sent a small...
18 KB (2,172 words) - 15:39, 7 October 2024