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Title: Portchester Castle [Go to resource]
Description: The print shows the massive keep, measuring 40 feet square internally with walls 8 feet thick, and behind this Assheton's Tower. The keep dominates the inner bailey, and was built in the 1120s, subsequently heightened in the mid twelfth century. It has been likened to the great tower at Corfe Castle. In the Napoleonic Wars it was used as a confinement for prisoners of war. The Norman castle was built within the walls of a rectangular Roman fort, as at Pevensey. In the late twelfth century it became a royal residence, being sold by the Crown in 1632 after falling into disrepair. The print appears in E W Brayley and J Britton. 1810, Hampshire, opposite p. 303 (originally published for 'The Beauties of England and Wales'). 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 Subjects: building
Portchester Castle
Assheton's Tower
castle
keepTemporal: start=1790-01-01; end=1810-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: F Nicholson; S Noble Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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