MONUMENT NO. 5180

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The alleged location of a tower house, not recorded in the survey of 1415 but reported as being in a state of disrepair in 1541. No trace of such a structure now survives above ground.

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Ingram: Described in the Survey of 1541 as 'a little tower, the mansion house of the parsonage there, and for lack of repairs, fallen into great decay in the roofs'. (Not listed in the Survey of 1415 pp 12-20) Listed in a return, in the beginning of Henry VIII (1509) (a). (1)

A tower is mentioned c 1514 as large enough to contain a garrison of 40 men. It belonged to Lord Ogle and was then uninhabited. The tower has now disappeared. The commissioners of 1541stated that the waters of the river were wearing away the banks, and in course of time would very likely wear away both the town of Ingram and the tower. (2)

NU 019 164. Reference to the tower as the 'mansion house of the parsonage' would indicate that it stood somewhere near the church. The flood plain of the Breamish is immediately north of the church and the mention of the possibility of the river wearing away the tower suggests that the tower stood in this area. There are no visible remains. (3)

Not dealt with during the RCHME: SE Cheviots Project. (4)

Dodds suggests that the tower originated in Norman times, and there are alternative references to it being able to accommodate either 40 or 60 men. This suggests that it was larger than a tower house, and possibly a tower keep. The tower was washed away in the 1580's, and Dodds points out that following a severe flood, the river course often alters, so its location must remain uncertain. (5)

Listed. (6)

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( 1a) Externally held archive reference

Chapter House Book B 1/24 Northum fo 116 (Public Records Office)

( 1) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

C J Bates 14, 1891 Page(s)22

( 2) edited by Madeleine Hope Dodds 1935 A history of Northumberland, volume fourteen : the parishes of Alnham, Chatton, Chillingham, Eglingham, Ilderton, Ingram and Whittingham, the chapelries of Lowick and Doddington

A history of Northumberland15 vols (1893-1940) vol.14

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DAD 17-APR-57

(4) Field Investigators Comments

Keith Blood/22-AUG-1995/RCHME:SE Cheviots Project

(5) Dodds, JF 1999 Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland

Page(s)112-3

(6) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)350

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