 LINDISFARNE
CASTLE Using stone from the dissolved
priory; Lindisfarne Castle was built in about the middle of the sixteenth century to
defcnd the harbour against Scottish raids. Although the Tudor fort lost much of its
importance after England and Scotland were united under one king, James I, a garrison
remained until the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1635 SirWilliam Brereton recorded that the governor of the fort, Captain Rugg,
'is as famous for his generous and free entertainment of strangers as for his great bottle
nose, which is the largest I have seen'. Strengthened during the Civil War, the garrison
was reduced to seven men by 1715. In that same year the two men on duty were tricked into
letting two Jacobite supporters capture the fort, albeit for only one night.
Click on image to enlarge it.
In 1903 Edwin Lutyens converted the castle into a country
residence for Edward Hudson, the founder of Country Life magazine. The small walled garden
to the north was designed by Gertrude Jekyll in about 1911. Both garden and castle were
acquired by the National Trust in 1944. |
