Qualla: Carlisle Citadel https://qualla.com/carlisle-citadel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Carlisle Citadel https://qualla.com/carlisle-citadel Carlisle Citadel: Introduction https://qualla.com/carlisle-citadel/ Step out of Carlisle railway station and the first building you see is the wrong shape for a station forecourt. Two stubby round towers of red sandstone face each other across English Street, looking faintly medieval but not quite right - too compact, too purpose-built, more bunker than castle. They are what is left of the Citadel: an artillery fortification Henry VIII commissioned in the late 1530s to replace the medieval Botcher's Gate through the south wall of the city, completed in 1541. The man who designed it, the Moravian military engineer Stefan von Haschenperg, was sacked two years later for having 'spent great treasures to no purpose,' but the gun-platforms he built outlasted his career by more than four hundred years.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/carlisle-citadel-wp/gcvb-carlisle-citadel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carlisle Citadel: An Engineer With a Difficult Reputation https://qualla.com/carlisle-citadel/ Henry VIII spent the late 1530s nervous about the north. The Pilgrimage of Grace had shown how shaky royal control could be, and Carlisle's medieval defences were antique. He hired von Haschenperg - a continental specialist in the new science of fortification against gunpowder - ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/carlisle-citadel-wp/gcvb-carlisle-citadel-from-fort-to-courthouse.mp3 0:06 3 full Carlisle Citadel: A County Office and a Quiet Future https://qualla.com/carlisle-citadel/ After the courts left, Cumbria County Council kept the buildings going as offices. The council had inherited them through the 1974 local government reorganisation that combined Cumberland with Westmorland into the modern county; the Citadel sat alongside a scatter of Victorian ho...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/b/carlisle-citadel-wp/gcvb-carlisle-citadel-a-county-office-and-a-quiet-future.mp3 0:06 4 full Carlisle Citadel: A Landmark in Plain Sight https://qualla.com/carlisle-citadel/ The Citadel today is one of those buildings most travellers walk straight past. It frames the entrance to Carlisle railway station, a few yards north of the platforms, and looks like part of the station's neo-Tudor furniture by William Tite. It is not. It is older, stranger, and ...

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