England · Ruin
Hastings Castle
Hastings Castle is a medieval keep-and-bailey castle ruin on the sandstone cliffs above the town of Hastings in East Sussex, England. Built soon after the Norman Conquest and rebuilt in stone, much of the site has since fallen into the English Channel and survives as cliff-top ruins open to the public.
Its prime
1220
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1220
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a low sandstone cliff above the English Channel, the castle comprised a stone keep on a motte and an enclosed bailey with curtain walls; many stretches of wall run parallel to the cliff edge. Surviving medieval masonry is coarse local stone with a large pointed chancel arch and fragments of high wall faces; the interior of the bailey was grassy at ground level and the cliff face below the castle is visibly eroded where sections have collapsed into the sea.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1220.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Hastings Castle — including 2 interiors: st mary's chapel — chancel arch, keep interior (upper floor). 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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