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Coity Castle, Bridgend

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00370m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Coity Higher
Unitary authority : Bridgend
NGR : SS92308149
Site Type (preferred type first) : Medieval Castle
Status : Site Cared for by the State

Summary :
Castle in five periods, consisting of two wards, the inner (with keep) adapted from an earlier ringwork, the outer probably replacing a bailey contemporary with the ringwork.

Description :
Castle in five periods, consisting of two wards, the inner (with keep) adapted from an earlier ringwork, the outer probably replacing a bailey contemporary with the ringwork. Period 1 ( c110) palisaded castle-ringwork, probably with bailey: Period 2 (late 12th century) keep, over half of the curtain wall of the inner ward: Period 3 (14th century) in inner ward - middle gate, rebuild of keep (with projecting round tower), domestic block; outer ward - west gate, walls and towers: Period 4 (15th century) improvements to defences, including rebuild after substantial breaches, inner ward - NE gatehouse, chapel (in two phases), southern cross wall; outer ward - barn, conversion of south tower into gatehouse, replacement of southwest tower by postern, turret built over infilled west ditch, west gatehouse built: Period 5 (Tudor) improvements to domestic arrangements, all in inner ward (RCAHMW 1991, 218-58 MR1). (08)

Sources :
Neath Antiquary Society Transactions , 1937/38 , Coity Castle and Church
Riley W. , 1894/85 , Intrenchments and Camps in Mynydd Baidan and Mynydd Margam. , Transactions of Cardiff Naturalist Society : XXVII pt.2 : 71-89
Seward E. , 1906 , Some Churches and Castles in Glamorgan , Transactions of Cardiff Naturalist Society : XXXIX : 78-95
The Handley Partnership , HAAbase built heritage assessment system: Buildings at Risk database
Vaughan Hy.F.J. , In Re Coyty Castle , Archaeologia Cambrensis : 32 : 317-318
02/PH Desc Text//Homfray J/1828/Castles of Glam/p.27;
01/MM Record Card/OS//1957/SS 98 SW 10/
05/PM Desc Text//Williams G/1973/An illust Guide to Anc Mons Wales;
07/PH Desc Text/RISW//1877/Archaeol Cambrensis/Vol.8 series 4 p.154;
04/PH Desc Text///1877/Archaeol Cambrensis/p.1-22;
06/PH Mention/RISW/Archaeol Cambrensis//1869/Vol.1 series 4 p.199-;
03/pm desc text/RCAHM//1991/Invent III 1b/MR1
08.Evans EM (2002), GGAT A775 Coity Link Road, Bridgend: Archaeological Desk Based Assessment
10/Desc Text/Revised entry to the schedule of monuments/Cadw/2008
09/Desc Text/Cadw/Revised Entry to the Schedule of Monuments/2008/Copy in further information file.

Events :
E002441 : Coity Castle, Bridgend (SAM Gm4) WB (year : 1999)
E006299 : South Wales Police Headquarters, Bridgend (year : 2018)
E007738 : Land at Ridgeway, Brackla, Bridgend (year : 2022)
E008569 : Land of the A48, Pyle, Bridgend (year : 2018)
E008568 : Land at Brackla, Bridgend (year : 2019)

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 94504 http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/94504/details

Compiled date : 01-02-1977


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