England · Restored
Yarmouth Castle
Yarmouth Castle is a mid-16th-century square artillery fort on the west side of Yarmouth Harbour, Isle of Wight, built under Henry VIII and altered in subsequent centuries. The fort has an Italianate arrow‑head bastion on its landward side, a seaward gun platform and formerly worked with an adjacent quay battery; it is now managed by English Heritage as a visitor attraction.
First raised
1547
Its prime
1670
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1670
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, square stone fort about 30 m across with a low, flat roofline forming a continuous gun platform to seaward and an angular arrow‑head bastion projecting on the landward side. Walls are ashlar with some red brick on the south face, pierced by a few gunloops; the north and west faces are reinforced by angular buttresses and face the harbour. The southern interior was raised into a solid artillery platform while the northern side retains ranges of service buildings around a courtyard.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1670.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Yarmouth Castle — including 3 interiors: seaward gun platform (southern interior), master gunner's house (interior front), courtyard and long room for stores. 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 Yarmouth Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1670 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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