Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX ACCOUNT OF THE LUMLEV ESTATES LORENCE OF WORCESTER in his account, given in Chapter I., says that Liulph "had many possessions far and wide throughout England by hereditary right." However this may have been, his immediate descendants seem only to have held lands in the County Palatine of Durham. This Liulph's son, Uchtred, is said to have held the manors of Little Lumley and Heselden. The original family house was at Great Lumley, a mile south of the site of the present castle. The remains of the old manor house were traceable till recent times, and the cottage on its site is still pointed out. Liulph and his family removed, as we have seen, to Durham when the Normans were ravaging the country, and he was murdered there. The date of the foundation of Lumley Castle is unknown, but it is said to have been begun by Sir Robert Lumley in the reign of Edward I. (see p. 9), and enlarged by his son, Sir Marmaduke. The earliest existing portion is the west side of the quadrangle, the east front of which originally formed the exterior front. Sir Marmaduke's son, the great Sir Ralph, obtained leave from King Richard II. and Bishop Skirlaw of Durham to make his manor house into a castle, the bishop's licence being granted in 1389 and the king's in 1392, and it then assumed its present form. It is a quadrangle with an area in the centre, having at each angle massy square towers, embattled and machicolated; the whole being built of freestone, of a bright and beautiful tint. The east front, which retains all its original magnificence, extends 175 feet, and almost overhangs a deep wooded ravine, through which the Lumley Beck meanders till it joins the Wear. Three stages of masonry rise above each other with mullioned windows, heavily grated...