Keswick Monks Hall

Has been described as a Possible Pele Tower

There are no visible remains

NameKeswick Monks Hall
Alternative Names
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishKeswick

Monk's Hall is listed under 'pele towers' as a moat and (?) tower in 1785, and in 1789 it was described as a small farmhouse with vestiges of a moat and a square building. (PastScape–ref. Perriam and Robinson)

Monks-Hall ... This estate belongs to Sir M. Le Fleming, Baronet, and takes its name from the circumstance of belonging formerly to the Monks of Furness Abbey in Lancashire. It was given to them, (with other lands in this neighbourhood,) by Godartus Dapifer, and was called a carucate of land. Godartus's heirs confirmed the gift, and paid, according to Nicholson and Burn, L.100, and five couples of hounds for a post-fine to King Henry II. At this hall the Monks had a Steward, and here the tenants used to pay their rents. It is now a small farm house, but there are vestiges of a moat and a square building. (Clarke 1789)

Gatehouse Comments

Site under cottage hospital. Mislocated by Perriam and Robinson as at NY202330 (also in PastScape) for no apparent reason but clearly referring to this building.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY260240
Latitude54.6064186096191
Longitude-3.13937997817993
Eastings326000
Northings524000
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 19 (mislocated at NY202330)
  • Collingwood, W.G. (ed), 1928, The Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming (Kendal: CWAAS Tract series 11) p. 60
  • Clarke, J., 1789 (2edn), A survey of the Lakes (London) p. 100

Journals

  • Collingwood, W.G., 1926, 'An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Westmorland and Lancashire North-of-the-Sands' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol. 26 p. 57 online copy