Kentchurch Twyn y Corras

Has been described as a Possible Timber Castle (Motte), and also as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameKentchurch Twyn y Corras
Alternative Names
Historic CountryHerefordshire
Modern AuthorityHerefordshire
1974 AuthorityHereford and Worcester
Civil ParishKentchurch

Corras is situated 1km south of Kentchurch church. The mound is in the garden of Twyn y Corras. The mound rises sharply to a height of c.12ft and has a flat top measuring 12ft across. It is probably a motte, to the south of which is a bailey containing a chapel excavated in 1988. The chapel displayed features typical of an early Norman manor chapel. The chapel had been enlarged sometime after 1200, and destroyed by 1400. Other features are difficult to make out as gardening has disturbed the ground, and it was also once the site of a World War II Home Guard dug-out. (Herefordshire Through Time)

a moated site or fortified house than an earthwork castle. (Phillips 2005)

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSO418249
Latitude51.919849395752
Longitude-2.84662008285522
Eastings341870
Northings224930
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Books

  • Shoesmith, Ron, 2009 (Rev edn.), Castles and Moated Sites of Herefordshire (Logaston Press) p. 173-4
  • Phillips, Neil, 2005, Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250 (University of Wales) p. 343-4 Download from ADS
  • Salter, Mike, 2000, Castles of Herefordshire and Worcestershire (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 42
  • Stirling-Brown, R., 1989, Herefordshire Castles (privately published) p. 9
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 207
  • 1981, Herefordshire Countryside Treasures (Hereford and Worcester County Council) p. 76

Journals

  • 1993, Herefordshire Archaeological News Vol. 59 p. 5-7 (plan)
  • 1992, Herefordshire Archaeological News Vol. 58 p. 18 (plan)
  • Thomas, Mary and Taylor, Elizabeth, 1989, 'Partial Excavation of the Chapel of Corras, Kentchurch' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club p. 194-208
  • Tonkin, J.W., 1982, 'Herefordshire Castles' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Vol. 44.1 p. 31-35 (esp 34)
  • Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1970, 'Castles in Wales and the Marches (Additions and corrections to lists published in 1963 and 1967)' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol. 119 p. 119-124
  • Thomas, M., 1968, Herefordshire Archaeological News Vol. 3