The remains of a motte and bailey castle consisting of a low motte with inner and outer baileys to the east. Both the motte and baileys appear to have been surrounded by wet moats, which are now partially utilised by stream courses and a mill pond. Modern walling links the substantial surviving sections of the shell keep and an apparently C19 house has been erected on the remains of the gatehouse. The inner bailey has been disturbed but the outer bailey is in good condition. C12 castle destroyed by King John, rebuilt in early C13 and again destroyed in 1224, rebuilt in1330 but sacked in War of the Roses. Some C14 curtain wall and foundations of C14 gatehouse survive.

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Name	Stogursey Castle
Alternative Names	Stoke Courcy
Historic County	Somerset
Civil Parish	Stogursey
Type	Timber Castle Masonry Castle
Confidence	Certain
Remains	Masonry ruins/remnants
Listed	Grade 2*
Scheduled Ancient Monument	Yes
Ordnance Survey Reference	ST202425
Eastings	320280
Northing	142590
Images of England Reference	265202
PastScape Reference	191252
Historic Environment Record	34071

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Books

• Prior, Stuart, 2006, A Few Well-Positioned Castles: The Norman Art of War (Tempus) p68-109
• Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p83
• Dunning, Robert, 1995, Somerset Castles (Somerset Books) p45-47 [plan]
• Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p223
• Dunning, R.W. (ed), 1992, VCH Somerset Vol6 p136-7
• King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p444
• Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p303
• Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
• Pevsner, N., 1958, Buildings of England: S and W Somerset p301
• Burrow, Edward J., 1924, Ancient Earthworks and Camps of Somerset (Cheltenham and London) p128
• Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
• Bothamley, 1911, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Somerset Vol2 p520
• Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p68-9
• Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol2 p262

Journals

• Thompson, M.W., 1986, 'Associated monasteries and castles in the Middle Ages: a tentative list' Archaeological Journal Vol143 p315
• Aston, M. (ed), 1976, ‘Somerset Archaeology 1974-75’ Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Vol120 p73
• Brown, R, Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol74 p249-280 [Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p90-121] http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28195904%2974%3A291%3C249%3AALOC1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
• 1941, Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Vol87 p7

Primary Sources

• Rickard, John, 2002, The Castle Community. The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422 (Boydell Press) [lists sources for 1272-1422] p428-9