What is recorded here

Hastings Castle, the Collegiate Church of St Mary and the Ladies' Parlour stand together as a scheduled monument, binding royal power and prayer into one stone edge above the town. The castle warned, the church sustained, and the parlour gave women a rare chamber of their own. That combination still startles because it refuses the usual hierarchy where male violence takes all the space.

The National Heritage List for England records Hastings Castle, the Collegiate Church of St Mary and the Ladies' Parlour as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

William de Braose, a Norman noble, built Hastings Castle in the late 11th or early 12th century. It is important as a key example of Norman military architecture and as part of the coastal defenses of southern England.

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