ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys the historical sources and some of the fabric evidence for the castle, its development and its decline. It draws on a range of unpublished English Heritage reports on aspects of the site prepared in the course of the late 1990s restoration project, notably those of Graham Brown and Jon Cooke. The documentary evidence for Wigmore is less extensive than it is for many castles, notably the royal castles. The Harley papers in the British Library and the Nottinghamshire Archives's Portland of Wellbeck Collection are useful for the castle's later history, and The National Archives (TNA) has a collection of material relating to the castle during the periods when it was under royal control. The combination of the early 14th-century architectural detailing and Mortimer glass lends weight to an attribution of the aisle's construction to Roger Mortimer.
