Hampshire Treasures

Volume 10 ( Fareham)

Group D - Buildings, Monuments and Engineering Works (Castle Street)
Description and Date:	Castle
Remarks:	Portchester Castle. The main walls date from C.3/4; they are those of the Roman Fort Portus Adurni. The walls form a square 200 yds. wide, built of flint with brick and stone bonding courses, substantially repaired in the mediaeval period. Fourteen, of the original twenty, hollow semi-circular bastions survive. Entrances are in the centres of west and east sides, the gateways now standing are mediaeval. In the north west corner of the fort is a mediaeval castle built during the reign of Henry II, moated to the south and east The keep extends beyond the Roman walls, and is forty ft. square with walls eight ft. thick, originally of three storeys, a fourth was added in C.13. Other buildings erected in C.14 and C.17 are now in ruins. SMR SU60SW1. Ref: Buildings of England, Hants and IOW (Pevsner and Lloyd) pp 375-382.
Protection:	SAM 4 T&CP Act CA
Grid Ref.:	SU 624 045
Punchcard No.:	0705 10

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