Castlefacts³

Most of the sites or buildings recorded in this web site are NOT open to the public and permission to visit a site must always be sought from the landowner or tenant.

Books

• Anthony Emery, 2016, Seats of power in Europe during the Hundred Years War: an architectural study from 1330 to 1480 (Oxbow Books) p. 55-62
• Brears, Peter, 2011, 'The Administrative Role of Gatehouses in Fourteenth-Century North-Country Castles' in Airs, M. and Barnwell, P.S. (eds), The Medieval Great House (Donington: Shaun Tyas) p. 200-213
• Goodall, John, 2011, The English Castle 1066-1650 (Yale University Press) p. 23, 330-1, 409
• Hislop, M., 2007, John Lewyn of Durham: a medieval mason in practice (Oxford: John and Erica Hedges: British Archaeological Reports British Series 438) p. 40-9, 71-6
• Turner, Maurice, 2004, Yorkshire Castles: Exploring Historic Yorkshire (Otley: Westbury Publishing) p. 250
• Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 112-3
• Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p. 88-9
• Cooper, Nicholas, 1999, Houses of the Gentry, 1480-1680 (Yale University Press) p. 301
• Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 1 Northern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 414
• Williams, Alison, 1996, 'Castles and moated sites' in Neave, Susan and Ellis, Stephen, An Historical Atlas of East Yorkshire (University of Hull Press) p. 32-3
• Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 282
• Neave, Susan, 1991, Medieval Parks of East Yorkshire (Univeristy of Hull) p. 33, 54-5
• King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 528
• Ryder, P.F., 1982 (paperback edn 1992), The Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire (Ash Grove Book) p. 87-107
• Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p. 230
• Loughlin, Neil and Miller, Keith, 1979, A survey of archaeological sites in Humberside carried out for the Humberside Joint Archaeological Committee p. 45
• Harvey, John, 1978, The Perpendicular Style 1330-1485 (London; Batsford)
• Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p. 6, 117
• Pevsner N., 1972, Buildings of England: Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (London) p. 374-5
• Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield) p. 144-5
• Morris, J.E., 1932, The East Riding of Yorkshire p. 358
• Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
• Mackenzie, J.D., 1896, Castles of England; their story and structure (New York: Macmillan) Vol. 2 p. 275-7 online copy
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 212-3 online copy
• Grainge, W., 1855, Castles and Abbeys of Yorkshire p. 208-14 online copy
• Savage, 1805, History of the Castle and Parish of Wressle (London)
• Grose, Francis, 1785 (new edn orig 1756), Antiquities of England and Wales (London) Vol. 6 p. 164-71 online copy

Antiquarian

• Camden, Wm, 1607, Britannia hypertext critical edition by Dana F. Sutton (2004)
• Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England  (Sutton Publishing) p. 538-9, 568
• Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1907, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (London: Bell and Sons) Vol. 1 p. 52-3 online copy

Journals

• Neil Guy, 2016 Sept, 'Wressle Castle (1390-1402)' Castle Studies Group Bulletin No. 22 p. 21-28 (illustrated essay) online copy
• Shaun Richardson and Ed Dennison, 2014-15, 'Wressle Castle, East Yorkshire: Gardens Survey Interim Summary' Castle Studies Group Journal Vol. 28 p. 190-98
• < >Brears, Peter, 2011, 'Wressle Castle: Functions, Fixtures and Furnishings for Henry Percy 'The Magnificent' fifth Earl of Northumberland, 1498-1527' The Archaeological Journal Vol. 167 p. 55-114 < >
• Wales, Wendy, 1998, 'Wressle Castle' Yorkshire History Quarterley Vol. 4.2 p. 45-47
• Hislop, M., 1998, 'John Lewyn of Durham: A North Country Master Mason of the 14th Century' British Archaeological Association Journal Vol. 151 p. 170-189
• Neave, D., 1984, 'Wressle Castle' The Archaeological Journal Vol. 141 p 58-60
• Bilson, J., 1913, 'Proceedings in 1912, Wressle Castle' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 22 p. 182-93
• Bilson, J., 1900, 'Wressle Castle and Bubwith Church' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 15 p. 503-4 online copy
• 1891, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 11 p. 483 online copy
• 1889, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 10 p. 314-5 (Leland's Itinerary) online copy
• 1881, The Archaeological Journal Vol. 38 p. 341

Primary Sources

• Rickard, John, 2002, The Castle Community. The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422 (Boydell Press) (lists sources for 1272-1422) p. 503
• T.P. {Bishop Thomas Percy} (ed), 1770, The regulations and establishment of the household of Henry Algernon Percy, the fifth Earl of Northumberland, at his castles of Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire, begun anno Domini M.D.XII. online copy (see also the 1905 edition (London A.Brown and Sons) with additional notes [online copy > https://archive.org/stream/regulationsestab00nortuoft#page/n5/mode/2up])
• Martin, M.T. (ed), 1911 for 1909, The Percy Chartulary (Surtees Society 117) 215, 216online copy
• 1903, 'Humberstone's Survey' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 17 p. 129-154 esp. 144-6 (Survey of 1570) online copy
• SC11/959 (Survey of 1538) The National Archives reference

Other

• Shaun Richardson, 2016 April 13, Wressle Castle, East Yorkshire: Beginning to End Lecture to the Royal Archaeological Institute online video (illustrations not working but talk fine)
• Historic England, 2015, Heritage at Risk Yorkshire Register 2015 (London: Historic England) p. vi, online copy
• < >Shaun Richardson & Ed Dennison, 2015 Feb, Garden and other earthworks, south of Wressle Castle, Wressle, East Yorkshire (Ed Dennison Archaeological Services Ltd) online copy < > (rather more than just garden earthworks)
• English Heritage, 2014, Heritage at Risk Register 2014 Yorkshire (London: English Heritage) p. 2 online copy
• English Heritage, 2013, Heritage at Risk Register 2013 Yorkshire (London: English Heritage) p. 2 online copy
• English Heritage, 2012, Heritage at Risk Register 2012 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 19 online copy
• English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 19 online copy
• English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 17 online copy
• English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009 Yorkshire and the Humber (London: English Heritage) p. 27 online copy
• Humble, Elizabeth, 2003, Yorkshire Courtyard Castles c. 1360-1420: Ambitions and Anxieties (Univ of York)
• Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 555online copy
• Fisher, E.J., 1954, Some Yorkshire estates of the Percies 1450-1650 (PhD Thesis Leeds University)

External Links

• Castle Studies Trust (3-D modelling)
• Wikipedia entry
• The Gott Collection of early drawings
• Yorkshire Archaeological Society
• Richard the Caastellan
• Wressle Castle