Southsea, Hampshire - Castle with Lighthouse - Salmon postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Southsea Castle near Portsmouth, Hampshire - shows the lighthouse
• Publisher:  J Salmon (2-58-04-15)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Southsea Castle (early in its history also known as Chaderton castle^[1] ) is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts, also known as Henrician Castles, built in 1544 on the waterfront at the southern end of Portsea Island (an area that later became named Southsea after the castle). The castle was built to guard the eastern entrance to the Solent and entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. Henry VIII watched the Mary Rose sink from near this location.

The building of the castle began in the spring of 1544 however there is the possibility that work started the year before.^[2] The castle was constructed around a square keep;^[3] to the south towards the sea the castle had an angled bastion with the same arrangement on the north side.^[3] Square gun platforms made up the east and west sides.^[3] This represented the first tentative use in England of the trace italienne style of fortification, that was already in use in Continental Europe.^[4] Henry's previous forts used semi-circular bastions which could not be fully covered by flanking fire from the supporting walls, and thus left an area of ""dead ground"" that could be exploited by enemy assault parties and miners. ^[5]

The building work was supervised by the Governor of Portsmouth, Sir Anthony Knyvett, who kept King Henry advised of the rapid progress of the construction with regular letters. By July 1544, the first two guns had been installed although the work was far from complete. Throughout the summer, Knyvett made repeated appeals for more funds, as there was often insufficient to pay the workforce. By October, more than £3,000 had been spent, £1,300 of which is known to have come from the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In the same month, Knyvett reported the completion of the castle to the Lord Chancellor, hoping the king would be pleased with the work ""which was of His Majesty's own device"".^[6]

By chance, King Henry was in Portsmouth on 18 July 1545, when the arrival of a French invasion fleet resulted in the Battle of the Solent, in which the English flagship, the Mary Rose, was lost. Although the castle overlooked the action it was not directly involved. Henry ordered improvements to the castle including embrasures to protect the flanks of the bastions and internal traversing walls and guard houses to aid defence should the external walls be scaled.^[7]

Edward VI spent a night at the castle in 1552 while inspecting the defenses of Portsmouth.^[8]

The early part of the 17th century found the castle ""verie ill prepared for defence"",^[9] and in March 1625 a fire started that caused significant damage to the fortification.^[10] It took a further ten years for the damage to be repaired only for further damage to be caused by a fire in March 1640.^[11]

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theme=topographical: british

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county/ country=hampshire

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period=1945 - present

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