Reconstruction illustration of the Henrician upper gun deck at Pendennis Castle, showing the interior of the deck as it may have appeared in the Tudor era. Gunners are preparing canon to be fired and longbow archers wait to the right.

Date:
circa 1985 - circa 1988
Location:
Pendennis Castle, Henrician Castle, Castle Drive, Falmouth, Cornwall
Reference:
IC077/005
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

The upper gun deck is within the earliest part of the castle, the round artillery tower constructed between 1540 and 1545. This illustration was reproduced across pages 6-7 of the 1999 English Heritage guidebook for Pendennis and St Mawes Castles.

Reconstruction illustration IC077/004 shows a very similar view of the gun deck; it is likely that IC077/004 is an earlier, unused version of this scene.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC077 Pendennis Castle, Cornwall; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Lapper, Ivan

Keywords

Tudor Battery, Tudor Artillery Fort, Tudor Castle, Military