Comments on: Cranbrook Castle, or Raymond’s Folly, Ilford, Essex https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/#comment-18140 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:08:47 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=8662#comment-18140 Thanks to Lorraine Silver for emailing with this further information: I was a committee member and then Chair of this organisation. You fail to mention that the Cranbrook Residents Association fought Redbridge Council to prevent it being turned into a Brewer’s Fayre Restaurant. A fighting fund was set up and raised £10,000 to cover any legal fees. Subsequently, the plan was rejected and a couple of our members sat on the Friends of Valentines Mansion committee to restore it to its former glory. Without the CRA the Mansion would not exist in its present form.

]]> By: Darnley Mausoleum, Cobham, Kent – The Folly Flaneuse https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/#comment-16905 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:03:27 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=8662#comment-16905 […] For another mausoleum that never served its purpose see this post on the lost Cranbrook Castle in Essex. […]

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/#comment-13210 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 11:39:20 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=8662#comment-13210 In reply to Editor.

Hello again Nick. As Alan has reminded me there were articles in Follies magazine. The magazines have been digitised (all credit to Alan for making this amazing resource available online) and can be seen on the Folly Fellowship website http://follies.org.uk/index.php/magazine/

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/#comment-13209 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 11:36:19 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=8662#comment-13209 In reply to Alan Terrill.

Hello Alan. I had forgotten, so thanks for the reminder!

]]> By: Alan Terrill https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/#comment-13208 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 11:11:24 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=8662#comment-13208 Don’t forget the series of articles on triangular towers by Hilary
Peters that appeared in Follies magazine between issues 79 and 84 . Back Issues are still available!

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/#comment-13205 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:06:30 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=8662#comment-13205 In reply to Nicholas William Kingsley.

Good morning Nick. I hope others can help, but meanwhile the Blaise Castle tower comes to mind – it is very similar to Haughmond Castle in Shropshire, which I have featured in these pages. Racton Tower in Sussex and the Bardsea Monument in Cumbria, also featured here, are both triangular. I’m sure you will have Roger White’s 1985 article from Country Life on the subject?

]]> By: Nicholas William Kingsley https://thefollyflaneuse.com/cranbrook-castle-or-raymonds-folly-ilford-essex/#comment-13204 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 07:27:16 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=8662#comment-13204 The tower is of particular interest to me as one of a group of triangular (and mostly Gothick) towers built in the C18 as follies and viewpoints that also includes Fort Belvedere alias Shrubs Hill Tower (Surrey), Broadway Tower (Worcs/Glos), Haldon Belvedere and Powderham Castle Tower (Devon), Sevendroog Tower (Kent), King Alfred’s Tower at Stourhead (Wilts) and Horton Tower (Dorset), the Keeper’s House at Acton Burnell (Shropshire) and Hiorne’s Tower at Arundel (Sussex). Does anyone know of others?

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