Warenmouth Tower (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Newton near Bamburgh; Budle Bay; Newtown Pele

In the civil parish of Bamburgh.
In the historic county of Northumberland.
Modern Authority of Northumberland.
1974 county of Northumberland.
Medieval County of Northumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NU16193547
Latitude 55.61278° Longitude -1.74441°

Warenmouth Tower has been described as a certain Bastle.

There are no visible remains.

Comments

There was once a chartered town here, the port of Bamburgh, founded in the mid C13, but that port and township seem to have been short lived being out of mind by the late C16. It was called a tower in 1628 but was marked as a 'bastile' on a map of 1781. The actual form is unknown and early modern uses of term like tower, pele and bastle can be fairly inter-changeable. However it seems the likely construction date is late C16 or even early C17 and this would suggest a bastle type building rather than the multi-storey tower houses of medieval period.

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 7539.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) N5090.

Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 142
  Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 114 (slight)
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 352
  Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p. 281
  Bateson, Edward (ed), 1893, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol. 1 p. 197 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana (ser3) Vol. 13 p. 5 abridged transcription

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