What is recorded here

The National Heritage List for England records Southsea Castle as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Southsea Castle was built by Henry VIII in the 1540s as part of a chain of coastal defenses to protect England from French invasion. It is important as a well-preserved example of 16th-century military architecture and as a key element in the Tudor coastal defense system.

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