Wales · Partial ruin
Tenby Castle
Tenby Castle is a medieval fortification on a rocky promontory beside the town of Tenby in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Only fragments of the original castle survive today: stretches of curtain wall, some towers and a main gateway; the Great Hall’s site is now occupied by the town museum. The castle was originally enclosed by curtain walls with landward towers and a lower sea wall around the beach.
Its prime
1250
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1250
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a rocky promontory joined to the town by an isthmus, the castle in its prime presents continuous coursed rubble-stone curtain walls with regular crenellated parapets and several small round or square landward towers. A prominent, arched landward gateway pierces the wall; a lower sea-wall runs around the promontory and beach to the west. On the summit stands a single small tower above the enclosed domestic range and courtyard, all built of grey-brown local stone.
Its story
The story of Tenby Castle.
Tenby Castle was founded by the Normans during their invasion of West Wales in the 12th century, sited on a rocky headland separated by an isthmus from the town. There are mentions of the castle from as early as 1153, though the remaining stone structure dates from the 13th century.
In 1648, during the Second English Civil War, a unit of Royalists under the command of Rice Powell held a refortified Tenby for ten weeks until besieging Parliamentarians starved them into surrender. Only fragments of the castle survive — stretches of curtain wall, some towers and a main gateway, from defences that once included landward towers and a lower sea wall around the beach. The site of the Great Hall is now occupied by the town museum, and the remains are a Grade II* listed building.
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7 places to explore in 1250.
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