Longthorpe Tower [2]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 26 Sep 2021

Longthorpe Tower was built in the early 14th century as an extension to an existing fortified manor house. The tower has three storeys, is built of stone with walls 6 to 7 feet thick. The first floor was originally designed as living space and contains English medieval wall paintings of religious, secular and moral themes from circa 1330. They were whitewashed around the time of the Reformation and remained hidden until their rediscovery in the 1940s. The tower is listed, grade I, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1162040 A Scheduled Ancient Monument with much history and detail at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013284 The tower is in the care of English heritage. Longthorpe is a village in the city of Peterborough, some 2 miles west of the city centre. A Roman fort was established here in the 1st century covering 27 acres, later replaced by another fort of 11 acres. The village is home to Longthorpe Tower, a 14th-century tower and fortified manor house, it contains the finest and most complete set of domestic paintings of the period in Northern Europe.

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