Motte and bailey, St Devereux.
SMR NO. 6813 GRID REF: SO 4507 3199
| St. Devereux is 6 ½ miles to the southwest of Hereford. 1.2km northeast of the Church and in the grounds of the early 16th century Didley Court Farm are the remains of a motte and bailey castle much cut into by the existing farm buildings. The name St Devereux comes from the 'Church of Saint Dyfrig' a well-known Anglo Saxon Saint who is thought to have been born at Madley. There is also a chapel and piscina dedicated to him at Woolhope. | |
| ©Paul Wood 2003 |
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The motte is roughly round, 24m in diameter and 5m high. The ditch only survives on the SW and it dies out to a berm on the southeast and East. Traces of a crescent shaped bailey can be seen on the North and northwest with a ditch on the west and scarping on the rest of the circuit. To the southwest of the bailey a scarp encloses a platform or court of an irregular shape and perhaps later date. Only the motte now remains. |