Lulworth Castle

Lulworth Castle in East Lulworth is a, Dorset, south of Wool, lying castle.

Lulworth Castle was built about 1610 by Thomas Howard, 3rd Lord Bindon, son of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk, as a hunting lodge, but later transformed into a country house. 1641 Howard sold the property to Humphrey Weld. In 1786, Thomas Weld, the father of Cardinal Thomas Weld the construction of a chapel on the grounds of the castle commissioned, which can be visited today. In 1803, died at the castle of the French Jesuit mystic Jean Nicolas Grou. 1929 large parts of the castle were destroyed by fire. In the 1970s, the castle was renovated. In 1998 the work was completed at the castle, after which it was released to the public.