Embleton Tower

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Embleton Tower is in the village of Embleton in Northumberland. (grid reference NU231224).

This is a pele-tower. It was provided for the vicar of Embleton by Merton College, Oxford, who held the patronage of the parish, in 1332. It was probably first constructed as a house and later in the century converted into a tower; allegedly permission to crenellate was given in 1385 after the parish had been laid waste by the Scots.

The tower is three storeys high and, unusually, has two vaulted rooms in the basement rather than the usual two. Much later a vicarage was built on to one side of the tower.