Arundel Castle

Ownership: Arundel Castle Trustees Limited

Status: Independent Charitable Trust

Here are the pictures that I took on my first visit to Arundel Castle. They are not so good with the old camera so I have kept them small but did not want to waste them.

This great castle, home of the Dukes of Norfolk, dates from the Norman Conquest. Containing a very fine collection of furniture and paintings Arundel Castle is still the family home, reflecting the changes of nearly a thousand years. Personal possessions of Mary Queen of Scots and a selection of historical, religious and heraldic items from the Duke of Norfolk's collection are on display. The Duke of Norfolk is the Premier Duke, the title having been conferred on Sir John Howard in 1483 by his friend King Richard III. The Dukedom also carries with it the hereditary office of Earl Marshal of England. Among the historically famous members of the Howard family are Lord Howard of Effingham who with Drake repelled the Spanish Armada; the Earl of Surrey, The Tudor poet and courtier and the 3rd Duke of Norfolk, uncle of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard both of whom became wives of King Henry VIII.

Also said to have three ghosts - a Cavalier, a kitchen hand and a young girl who threw herself from the castle's Hiorne's Tower.

(See next page for useful information, opening times, etc.)

First view of the castle from village

The next lot of pictures are from my second visit to Arundel in 2001