Museums · South East England
Westgate, Canterbury
Westgate, Canterbury — a museum in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Westgate, Canterbury is a museum in england-south-east, United Kingdom, listed in the Wikipedia register of British heritage and tourism sites. See the linked Wikipedia article for full details.
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Place summary
Westgate is a museum located in Canterbury, South-East England. It is housed in the historic Westgate Towers, which date back to the 14th century and are among the largest surviving city gates in England. The museum offers insights into the history of the city and its fortifications.
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Background
Architecture
]] The gatehouse is expensively faced in coursed ashlar of Kentish ragstone. It has battered plinths to drum towers, battlements, machicolations and eighteen gunloops: a high number for a gateway, and among the earliest gunholes in Britain. The gunloops would have been added by the beginning of the fifteenth century. It had a drawbridge over the Stour, a portcullis and wooden doors. The gateway has three floors. The ground floor was designed so that the gateway and vaulted passage had entrances to the towers on each side. Each tower had a ground-floor room with fireplace and four gunloops. The north tower's ground-floor room had a spiral staircase to upper floors. The first floor contains a…
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- Coordinates
- 51.2814, 1.0758
- County
- Kent
- District
- Canterbury
- Parish
- Canterbury, unparished area
- Postcode
- CT1 2BQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Canterbury
- Established
- 1380
- Opening
- Mo-Sa 10:00-16:00
Sources
- wikipedia: Westgate, Canterbury (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Westgate, Canterbury?
- Westgate, Canterbury is in Kent, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode CT1 2BQ), in the parish of Canterbury, unparished area.
- When was Westgate, Canterbury built?
- Built or established in 1380.
- How do I get to Westgate, Canterbury?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode CT1 2BQ. It sits within the Canterbury parliamentary constituency.