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Plans of Dover Castle DOVER CASTLE DOVER CASTLE KEEP Spur Medieval tunnels Pillbox Gallery Redan St John’s Tower Horseshoe Bastion Norfolk Towers Fitzwilliam Gate Hudson’s Bastion Avranches Tower King’s barbican Arthur’s Hall Crevecoeur Tower Bell Battery Avranches Lower Flank Pencester Tower Godsfoe Tower Inner King’s bailey Second floor Gate Treasurer’s Tower East Arrow Bastion Great King’s hall Constable’s Gate tower Anti-aircraft gun emplacements Well Palace Middle bailey Four Gun Battery Site of 12th- Gate century door Cistern East Demi-Bastion King’s chamber Peverell’s Gate Church of St Mary in Castro Drawbridge Well house pit Queen Mary’s Tower Colton’s Chapel of Thomas Becket Gate Roman pharos First floor Latrine shafts Gatton’s Tower Officers’ New Barracks Lower hall Constable’s Bastion Say’s Tower Lower chamber Well Naval radar station Hurst’s Tower Site of garrison hospital Meat store Drawbridge Annexe level tunnels pit Cinque Ports prison Forebuilding stairs Lower Roman chapel Fulbert of Dover’s Tower Admiralty Look-out Ground floor c. AD1000 1181–1216 Regimental 13th century Royal Garrison Artillery Barracks Institute Hospital Battery (remains) Storeroom, later 15th century powder magazine 16th century Gunpowder magazine 18th century Rokesley’s Tower Statue of Admiral Ramsay Bread oven 19th century Canon’s Gate 20th century and later Main storeroom Drawbridge Casemate level tunnels pit Course of 13th-century curtain wall Shot Yard Battery Storeroom, N Lighter tone indicates buried later cistern 16th-century battery or underground structures Forebuilding entrance Storeroom N Shoulder of Mutton Battery 0 15 metres 0 100 metres This drawing is English Heritage copyright and is supplied for the purposes of private research. It may not be reproduced in any medium without the express written permission of English Heritage. Moat’s Bulwark February 2015.
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