What is recorded here

Warkworth Castle crouches on a River Coquet bend, layering an early twelfth-century motte and bailey beneath stone walls and a late fourteenth-century Percy keep shaped like a lion. The collegiate church beside it announced aristocratic wealth, while the fortress waited out centuries until Civil War troops broke its defences. Even diminished, the site still holds the shape of northern power: a household large enough to keep priests, soldiers and guests inside one river-bend redoubt.

The National Heritage List for England records Warkworth Castle motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle and collegiate church 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.

Warkworth Castle was built by the de Warenne family in the 11th or 12th century and later held by the powerful Percy family. It is important as a well-preserved example of medieval military and religious architecture, including a motte and bailey, a stone tower keep, and a collegiate church.

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