Monument record 0175500000 - BUCKINGHAM CASTLE

Castle, seat of Giffards, built soon after Conquest (B4).
Mentioned ?c1070, 1216 (B6); mentioned in connection with with manor 1308; provisioning 1312 (B1).
Camden (1540s) mentions ruins (B6).
Castle Farm & Castle Mills placenames mentioned 1574; Castle Street existed by 1735 (B2).
Also Castle Hill mentioned (B3,B5 &C).
Stood on motte, subsequently flattened to form churchyard (B6).
Church built 1777-81 (CASS 04040).
NGR to church (B7).
Evaluation revealed traces of demolished medieval wall (?curtain wall) (B12). See 01755:04.



(SP 69463373) St Peter & St Paul's Church (Vicarage) on Site of (NAT) Castle (NR) (1).
The Church of St Peter and St Paul, built 1771-81 on motte of former castle (B15).
Said to have been the alleged prison of Hereward c 1070 (b18) and mentioned in 1216 (b19). A strong castle had stood on a high hill in Buckingham (b20) and a Constable of Buckingham Castle is mentioned as living in 1280. (This date has been altered to 1291 by manuscript) (5). A view that traditionally a castle stood here is supported by a number of 'castle' names in the vicinity. In 1877 excavations at the back of the Wesleyan Chapel exposed stonework which was considered part of the castle (B6, B3 and B2).
St Peter and St Paul's church occupies a large flat-topped eminence which stands up to 8.0 m above the surrounding ground level, and is popularly known as the site of a castle (B6).
Listed by Cathcart King (B16).
Between 1154-64 the castle at Buckingham is recorded as in the possession of the Earl of Buckingham, and was probably abandoned 1208-15. (8)

NRHE insert 2001, update 2003 and 2004 (B21)

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.