England · Partial ruin
Sandsfoot Castle
Sandsfoot Castle is a 16th-century artillery blockhouse built by Henry VIII on clay cliffs overlooking Weymouth Bay, Dorset. The stone two-storey blockhouse is attached to an octagonal one-storey gun room facing the sea and was originally protected on the landward side by rectangular earthwork defences with bastions.
Its prime
1542
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1542
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on erodible clay cliffs above Weymouth Bay, the castle comprises a two-storey rectangular blockhouse of Portland stone with ashlar facings and a landward gate-tower, linked to an attached one-storey octagonal gun room projecting seaward. The gun room had five embrasures and a flat roof intended to carry artillery; the blockhouse contained ground-floor service rooms, staircases to a first floor and a basement, and parapets protecting rooflines. A broad bank-and-ditch earthwork with bastions defended the landward side.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1542.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Sandsfoot Castle — including 5 interiors: octagonal gun room / gun platform, blockhouse ground floor (kitchen and accommodation), blockhouse first floor (living quarters and parapets) and more. 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 Sandsfoot Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1542 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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