Canterbury Castle Canterbury, England
Listed Building Data
Canterbury Castle has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1252100
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 3 December 1949
- Name
- CANTERBURY CASTLE
- Location
- CANTERBURY CASTLE, CASTLE STREET
- Parish
- Non Civil Parish
- District
- Canterbury
- County
- Kent
- Grid Reference
- TR1455357430
- Easting
- 614552.9422
- Northing
- 157429.7564
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
- 944 CASTLE STREET (North West Side)
Canterbury Castle TR 1457 SE 8/210 3.12.49.
I
- The remains of a square Norman keep. 2 storeys above ground level (it was reduced in height in 1817) built in bands of flint and Caen stone blocks. There were originally 4 arched windows to each side. The interior has 2 cross walls and the remains of spiral staircases in the east and south-west wall. Remains of fireplaces of rubble set in a herringbone pattern. The keep measures 87 by 75 feet externally and the walls are 9 ft thick. Scheduled as an ancient monument.
Listing NGR: TR1455357429
