St Michael's Mount Castle

Heritage listing

Details SW 53 SW 1/56 (was part of 9/157) MARAZION ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT St Michael's Mount GV I Priory castle, lady chapel and later private house. Circa 1135 built for Bernard of Le Bec, remodelled in the C14, C15 and remodelled and extended in the circa 1870s by Piers St Aubyn. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate and dry Delabole slate roofs with gable ends; embattled parapets to most roofs. Dressed granite chimneys mostly C19, irregularly disposed. Flat roof terraces over much of the C19 extensions carried on brick vaults. Plan: irregular plan largely determined by the rocky outcrop on which the building stands. The earlier domestic parts are within an L-shaped block comprising a south range perched over a precipitous slope and the west entrance range. The west range has a projecting tower at either end with the entrance on the left hand side of the range between the towers. The entrance is within the thickest walling of the castle and has a portcullis. To the right of the entrance is the Armoury (formerly a hall) behind which at right angles is the Church of Saint Michael qv (separate item). Projecting from the left hand tower is a thick buttress, possibly the truncated remains of an outer entrance or gatehouse. In the outer angle between the west range and the south range is a square block, probably formerly a tower, with a garderobe on corbels or machicolations on its left hand side. Behind this block (now Sir John's Room) is a lobby and behind the lobby, the Library, a C18 remodelling of probably a former tower with access from it to the church. Adjoining the rear right hand corner of the Breakfast Room is the former monks refectory, reroofed in the C15, embellished in the C17 and the C18 and since the C17 known as the Chevy Chase Room. Under this

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.