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Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset.Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.
Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. ... in West Street, was built in around 1774. [18] Corfe Castle The castle stands above ...
They lived in Corfe Castle, until its destruction during the civil war. Sir Ralph Bankes (1631–1677) was the second son of Sir John and brother of Jerome and John. Upon his father and younger brother's deaths, the estate passed to him. He was responsible for the building of the new family seat at Kingston Lacy.
Until his death, he was engaged with Roger Pratt in the design of Kingston Lacy, a new house to replace the destroyed Corfe Castle, which his mother had defended heroically during the English Civil War. It was based on Clarendon House, built for the Lord Chancellor, which Bankes visited several times. The project led to severe financial ...
Rather than rebuild Corfe Castle, the eldest son Ralph Bankes built a house on their other Dorset estate near Wimborne Minster. In 1663, he commissioned Sir Roger Pratt to design a new house to be known as Kingston Hall on the current site, based on Clarendon House which he had visited several times. Construction started the same year, and was ...
Corfe Castle: Corfe Castle: 11th century Ruined castle originally built by William the Conqueror [5] Dorset Cursus: Cranborne Chase: 3300 BCE: Neolithic cursus. This may be Britain's largest Neolithic site. It spans six miles (10km) through the chalk downs of Cranborne Chase. [6] Kingston Russell Stone Circle: Between Abbotsbury and Littlebredy ...
At Greystoke a new castle was built incorporating a medieval pele tower; [30] ... Corfe Castle: Keep and bailey 11–13th century: Extensive ruins
Sir John Bankes, portrait by Gilbert Jackson. Lady Mary Bankes defended the castle during two sieges in the English Civil War.. Sir John Bankes (1589 – 28 December 1644) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629. [1]