England · Restored
Calshot Castle
Calshot Castle is a 16th-century coastal artillery fortification on the shoreline at Calshot, at the entrance to Southampton Water. It was constructed as a compact stone drum-tower and surrounding bastion to control the channel and harbour approaches.
First raised
1539
Its prime
1540
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1540
The shape it held in its prime.
A squat, cylindrical three-storey stone drum tower sits centrally on a broad, curved stone bastion with a sloping scarp rising directly from tidal water. The tower is built of light grey squared masonry with regularly spaced rectangular and angled gun/windows and a low, flat roof. The bastion has embrasures and a narrow quay/moat at water level; a low range of red-brick service buildings abuts the tower to one side.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1540.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Calshot Castle — including the full exterior approach. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Calshot Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1540 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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