Sandsfoot Castle

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Sandsfoot Castle is a 16th-century coastal artillery fort in Weymouth, Dorset, built under Henry VIII to defend England’s southern coast.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sandsfoot Castle canonical 4
Sandsfoot Castle and Gardens 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Device Fort ⓘ
artillery fort ⓘ
ruined castle ⓘ
builtFor Henry VIII of England ⓘ
builtInCentury 16th century ⓘ
builtToDefend Portland Roads ⓘ
Weymouth Bay ⓘ
southern coast of England ⓘ
constructionEnd 1541 ⓘ
constructionStart 1539 ⓘ
controlledBy Parliamentarians ⓘ
Royalists ⓘ
country England ⓘ
currentUse historic site ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ
faces Isle of Portland ⓘ
fellIntoDisuse 17th century ⓘ
garrisonedBy small artillery garrison ⓘ
gridReference SY 673 776 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Sandsfoot Castle and Gardens ⓘ
linked to: Sandsfoot Castle
hasAmenity Sandsfoot Gardens ⓘ
hasFeature curtain wall ⓘ
ditch ⓘ
gun platform ⓘ
moat ⓘ
semi-circular gun battery ⓘ
two-storey residential block ⓘ
heritageDesignation Grade II* listed building ⓘ
Scheduled Monument ⓘ
locatedIn Dorset ⓘ
South West England ⓘ
linked to: southwest England

Weymouth ⓘ
locatedOn south coast of England ⓘ
materialUsed Portland stone ⓘ
nearbySettlement Wyke Regis ⓘ
openToPublic yes ⓘ
overlooks Portland Harbour ⓘ
ownership Weymouth and Portland Borough Council ⓘ
partlyCollapsedInto sea ⓘ
partOf King Henry VIII’s coastal defence programme ⓘ
King’s Works of Defence ⓘ
primaryFunction coastal artillery defence ⓘ
region Jurassic Coast area ⓘ
linked to: Jurassic Coast
reopenedToPublic 2012 ⓘ
sufferedFrom coastal erosion ⓘ
underwentConservation early 21st century ⓘ
usedDuring English Civil War ⓘ
Tudor period ⓘ
linked to: Tudor England

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Device Forts → notableWork → Sandsfoot Castle ⓘ
Henrician castles → notableExample → Sandsfoot Castle ⓘ
Sandsfoot Castle → hasAlternativeName → Sandsfoot Castle and Gardens ⓘ
linked to: Sandsfoot Castle