What is recorded here

Kenilworth Castle in Warwick, England, is a scheduled monument preserving a motte and bailey, an enclosure, a mere, dams and 16th century gardens. The distinction between ancient defence and later pleasure is still visible in the shape of the place. Water, earth and garden work together there, making the castle less like a dead ruin and more like a house that changed its mind about what it was for.

The National Heritage List for England records Kenilworth Castle: a motte and bailey and enclosure castle with mere, dams and 16th century gardens 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.

Kenilworth Castle was built by the de Mandeville family in the 11th century and later held by the Crown and the earls of Warwick. It is important for its extensive medieval and 16th-century developments, including its role in the 1575 entertainment of Queen Elizabeth I by Robert Dudley.

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