Local History: Stokesay Castle- story behind the castle.

Question 1

starter questions: why is local history important?

Answer 1

allows you to know the culture and history.
insight to how things have changed.
understand how the past has impacted now.
creates a community.
everyone can access it.
reminds us everyone and everything is part of history.

Question 2

what is the castle?

Answer 2

a fortified manor house.

Question 3

where is it?

Answer 3

Shropshire, England.

Question 4

L of L: who brought it first, what did he do and when?

Answer 4

Laurence of Ludlow.
1281.
wealthy wool merchant.

Question 5

L of L: what happened to Laurence of Ludlow, when and why?

Answer 5

drowned.
1294.
shipping wool to low countries.

Question 6

L of L: what were the low countries?

Answer 6

coastal region N.W Europe- Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg.

Question 7

L of L:what did L of L descendants do until when?

Answer 7

set down roots and remained lords of the manor until 1498.

Question 8

L of L: why did they move after 1498?

Answer 8

last male heir died.

Question 9

L of L: what happened after the last male heir died?

Answer 9

passed to granddaughter to Thomas Vernon.

Question 10

T.V: who was thomas vernon?

Answer 10

wealthy and important Derbyshire family.

Question 11

T.V: what did his higher position may have affected?

Answer 11

standing of the house.
described as looking like a castle.

Question 12

T.V: who was thomas’s grandson and what did his grandson’s account books showed?

Answer 12

Henry Vernon.
visited from time to time.

Question 13

T.V: why did his grandson visit form time to time?

Answer 13

to help make repairs.

Question 14

T.V: what do the dendrochronological survey provide evidence for and when?

Answer 14

repairs on the north tower in 1577.

Question 15

H.V: what happened to Henry in 1591?

Answer 15

arrested for debt.

Question 16

H.V: what did he do to try to get out of debt, when and to who and what did they do with it?

Answer 16

1596.
sold Shropshire properties.
sir George Mainwaring.
sold it on for a profit.

Question 17

h.v: who did he sell it to and in what year?

Answer 17

1620.
dame Elizabeth craven and her son William( first earl of craven.)

Question 18

W.C: who was William?

Answer 18

enthusiastic soldier and a considerable builder.

Question 19

W.C: when did he build the gatehouse?

Answer 19

1640-1641.

Question 20

W.C: during the civil wars whose side was he on?

Answer 20

royalist.

Question 21

W.C: what did Stokesay turn into?

Answer 21

military garrison.

Question 22

W.C: when did parliamentarians move into shropshire and surround the castle?

Answer 22

1645.

Question 23

W.C: how did the castle become surrendered?

Answer 23

parliament asked for them to surrender they didn’t in relation to the terms of giving in a property.
a second ask surrender was accepted and the victors demolished the curtain wall but left gatehouse standing.

Question 24

who was living inside the house and who restored it during the era of republic?

Answer 24

tenants known as the Baldwyn family.

Question 25

what is meant by era of republic?

Answer 25

England ruled without a king.

Question 26

when was the republic?

Answer 26

1649-1660.

Question 27

where did the Baldwyn’s live after the restoration of the monarchy and Craven reclaimed the property?

Answer 27

continued to live their and in the early 18th century rented out to tenant farmers.

Question 28

why did the building have to change after the monarchy was restored?

Answer 28

different people lived their and the house needed to accommodate for that.

Question 29

what happened to the buildings after monarchy restored but what did it gain?

Answer 29

falling into seemingly irreversible decay. gained interest due to historic value.

Question 30

when was the restoration?

Answer 30

1660.

Question 31

who brought the estate in 1869?

Answer 31

John Derby Allcroft.

Question 32

who was John Derby Allcroft?

Answer 32

successful London glove manufacture.

Question 33

what sort of repairs did John Derby Allcroft do?

Answer 33

sympathetic and extensive programme of repairs.

Question 34

when did John Derby Allcroft repairs began?

Answer 34

1875-1887.

Question 35

what did John Derby Allcroft decided should be done to the house?

Answer 35

left empty but kept safe as a historic monument.

Question 36

what was unique from the renovation that unusual for the time?

Answer 36

work left little trace of it’s own achievement except the buildings it conserved.

Question 37

what did Allcroft descendants do with the property?

Answer 37

did all they could to preserve it and paid for upkeeping by opening the castle to the public and charging admission fees.

Question 38

what did Allcroft’s descendants do when the coast of maintenance became too much and when was this?

Answer 38

transferred ownership to English Heritage in 1992.

Question 39

once it had been transferred a second restiration took place but why did they have to be careful?

Answer 39

Victorian predecessor to respect and preserve. increasingly valued as structures of time honoured beauty and authenticity.

Question 40

what does the castle operate as know?

Answer 40

tourist attraction.

Question 41

how many visitors does it receive?

Answer 41

in 2010 nearly 40,000.