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1. • • Pendennis Castle was built as a consequence of international tensions between England, France and the Holy Roman Empire in the final years of the reign of King Henry VIII.
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   Why was Pendennis Castle built?

   • Pendennis Castle was built from 1539 to 1545 when England faced a possible invasion from the united powers of Catholic Europe. To defend against this, Henry VIII implemented a national programme of military and naval preparations, including new coastal artillery forts.

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   What is Pendennis Castle?

   • Pendennis Castle is one of England’s finest surviving coastal fortresses. Together with the fortress at St Mawes, Pendennis guarded the anchorage of Carrick Roads and the port towns below for over 400 years. The castle began as a gun fort in the mid-16th century.

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   What happened to Pendennis Castle?

   • After the war Pendennis Castle continued to be used for training until 1956 when the Coast Artillery Branch of the Army was disbanded. A year later, it was returned to the guardianship of the Ministry of Works for opening to the public. Visitors to the castle today experience a fascinating stroll through a complex history of conflict.

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   Where was Pendennis built?

   • Furthermore, Pendennis is one of only a few locations in England where substantial bastioned forts were built during the late 16th century: a second, of comparable scale, is at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, and a third, more massive enterprise, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

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   What type of Fort was Pendennis Point?

   • It was an elongated pentagon in plan, defined by a high rampart and ditch, with a bastion projecting at each angle. A large triangular area of the new fortress (a salient) overlooked Pendennis Point, where a smaller fort included the earlier gun tower known as Little Dennis. The bastions had heavy guns to protect against attack by land and sea.

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   How did Henry VIII defend Pendennis?

   • In 1597 the soldiers and courtiers Sir Nicholas Parker, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Sir Walter Raleigh surveyed the defences of Pendennis. By 1600, the engineer Paul Ive had enclosed Henry VIII’s castle within a much larger fortress to defend the whole of Pendennis headland.

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3. www.english-heritage.org.uk › visit › placesHistory of Pendennis Castle - English Heritage

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   Pendennis Castle was built from 1539 to 1545 when England faced a possible invasion from the united powers of Catholic Europe. To defend against this, Henry VIII implemented a national programme of military and naval preparations, including new coastal artillery forts.

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   Pendennis Castle was built as a consequence of international tensions between England, France and the Holy Roman Empire in the final years of the reign of King Henry VIII.

5. production.english-heritage.org.uk › visit › placesHistory of Pendennis Castle - English Heritage

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   Pendennis Castle was an important artillery fort from 1539 until 1956, defending the naval and mercantile anchorage of Carrick Roads and the port of Falmouth.

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7. production.english-heritage.org.uk › visit › placesPendennis Castle: History and Stories - English Heritage

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   Pendennis Castle dominates a rocky headland high above Falmouth in Cornwall. It is one of a handful of distinctive circular artillery forts built during a period of national emergency in the 1540s. Explore this castle’s eventful history, from the time of Henry VIII to the Second World War.

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   Built as one of a pair with St Mawes Castle by Henry VIII, Pendennis castle defended the entrance to the Carrick Roads and Falmouth harbour for more than 400 years. It was specifically designed to be round so that guns could be fired from all angles if the anticipated Spanish or French invasions were to arrive.

9. www.english-heritage.org.uk › visit › placesSignificance of Pendennis Castle | English Heritage

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   Significance of Pendennis Castle. The defences on the headland at Pendennis, along with those of the wider area defending the Fal at St Mawes and at St Anthony Head, represent one of the finest surviving examples of a coast fortress in England.

10. production.english-heritage.org.uk › visit › placesDescription of Pendennis Castle | English Heritage

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    Pendennis Castle dominates a high rocky headland on the south side of the Fal estuary, overlooking the English Channel close to where it joins the Atlantic Ocean, historically a vital sea route. The castle defences are a rich amalgam from an artillery fortress operating throughout the period 1539–1956, concentrated both inside Elizabethan ...