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Liverpool Castle



During the reign of Charles I the castle was seized by Lord Derby. In 1644 Prince Rupert and his men took the castle, which was later taken back by Sir John Moore. Protestant supporters of William of Orange seized the castle in 1689. On March 5, 1704[2] the burgesses obtained a lease for the castle and its site from the Crown for fifty years. Lord Molyneux disputed this as he still claimed hereditary constableship. This delayed the settlement of the lease until 1726, when the last remaining ruins of the castle were removed. Finally in 1715 an Act was passed to demolish the castle and build a church in its place. Construction of St George's church begun on the site of the old castle and was consecrated in 1734. By 1825 the church had been pulled down and a new one built in its place. In 1899 the church was demolished and the Victoria Monument was erected in 1902. In 1976 excavation of the south side of Castle Street was conducted prior to the construction of the Crown Courts building which were built in the style of a castle.

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Replica of Liverpool Castle

Scale replica of Liverpool Castle as seen in Rivington
Scale replica of Liverpool Castle as seen in Rivington

In the village of Rivington on the West Pennine Moors near Chorley there is a full-size replica of Liverpool Castle, in ruins. The replica was built in the early 1900s for the 1st Viscount Leverhulme and based on a partly conjectural reconstruction of the castle prepared by E. W. Cox in 1892.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Standish History 1315. Standish-history.org.uk. Retrieved on 2006-10-01.
  2. ^ a b c Mike Royden's Local History Pages. Mike Royden. Retrieved on 2006-10-01.
  3. ^ a b 'Liverpool: The castle and development of the town', A History of the County of Lancashire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 4-36. British History Online. Retrieved on 2006-10-01.
  4. ^ Cox, Edward W. (1892). "An Attempt to Recover the Plans of the Castle of Liverpool from Authentic records; Considered in Connection with Medieval Principles of Defence and Construction". Trans.Hist.Soc.Lancashire and Cheshire 42. 

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