Scheduled Monument: Southsea Castle (1001869)

Site Description Details: Visit Date: 19/OCT/1981 Retains the cruciform plan with bastions on the N and S, with an internal square keep, that it had when it was a coastal fort built by Henry VIII. It has been many times reconstructed and adapted. The Keep, though patched, contains much early masonry and has 3 blocked windows or gun posts with 4 central heads on the S side and continued on the E. Surrounding the keep is a bastioned outer wall reconstructed by de Gomme 1670. Reconstructed again in the C19th. The counterscarp of the moat has a passage running around it with loops for enfilading the moat. It is connected by means of caponier on the S with the inner works.