England · Restored
Southsea Castle
Southsea Castle is an artillery fort on the southern end of Portsea Island, Hampshire, originally constructed by Henry VIII in 1544 to protect the Solent and Portsmouth. The fort developed a square central keep with angled bastions and rectangular gun platforms and was repeatedly modified up to the 19th century; it is now owned by Portsmouth City Council and operates as a restored tourist site.
First raised
1543
Its prime
1860
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1860
The shape it held in its prime.
A low, roughly square stone fort with a squat square central keep rising above thick grey ashlar curtain walls, two rectangular gun platforms projecting to east and west, and angled bastions to the front and rear. A small cylindrical lighthouse with horizontal dark and light bands stands on the western gun platform. The fort sits on a grassy glacis with a surrounding moat and counterscarp gallery, brick-built interior ranges in the bailey, and simple crenellated parapets along the walls.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1860.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Southsea Castle — including 2 interiors: inner bailey courtyard, lodgings and store rooms (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Southsea Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1860 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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