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Tonbridge Castle today

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Tonbridge Castle

Tonbridge Castle is a 13th-century stone castle in Tonbridge, Kent, centred on a large twin-towered gatehouse completed around 1260. The gatehouse and stretches of curtain wall survive; the site later gained a mansion and today the grounds form a public park.

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Its prime

1260

Today

Still standing

As it stood in 1260

The shape it held in its prime.

A dominant twin-towered gatehouse: two massive cylindrical stone drums flank a high central entrance with a tall pointed-arch gateway. The fabric is warm honey-brown sandstone laid in coursed masonry, pierced by narrow vertical slit windows and paired pointed-arch openings in the upper face. A crenellated curtain wall runs off to one side with a visible wall-walk; the gate passage penetrates the thickness of the gatehouse and the whole presents a fortress silhouette against the town and open parade ground before it.

Step inside

6 places to explore in 1260.

The record describes 6 distinct spots at Tonbridge Castle — including 1 interior: gate passage through the gatehouse. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Approach across the parade ground to the gatehouseFront façade of the twin-towered gatehouseGate passage through the gatehouseInner bailey enclosed by curtain wallsCurtain wall and battlementsTop of a flanking tower, looking out over town

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