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Description: | Quebec House can be seen on the left, this was originally built as a bathing house for sea-water bathing by public subscription in 1754, it was then altered in the early 19th century.
The Round Tower is to the right. This is probably the earliest of the stone built defences, circa 1415. It is cylindrical with string courses dividing the three storeys. The ground floor circa 1538-40 gun ports of this period are mostly blocked. The upper storeys were probably part of Sir Bernard de Gomme's reconstruction, but largely rebuilt in the early 19th century, when the interior was recast with massive brickwork vaulting and casemates behind the gun ports.
There are two yachts in the foreground.
Hampshire Treasures 1986, Volume Eleven, Hampshire County Council. p, 198 & p, 200.
A copy of a photograph created by Derek Dine. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire County Council - Hampshire Library and Information Service | Subjects: | building tower yacht | Temporal: | start=1987-07-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Derek Dine, Hampshire County Library | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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