containing the chain room, with a pulley and capstan for raising the chain defence. The first floor was used for accommodation and was fitted with an oven. Gunloops for handguns ran around both the basement, the ground floor, and the first floor for close defence. Lighter artillery would have been positioned on the roof, where the battlements were raised in height after the castle was first built to deal with the threat posed by musket fire from the higher ground behind the castle. An high turret rises above the roof level. The main gun tower is flanked by two mid-16th century gun platforms, altered in the 18th century to house newer forms of artillery. Just behind the gun tower is Saint Petrox Church, a three-aisled building which dates in its current form to 1641, with some alterations resulting from its restoration in 1833. Old Battery dates from 1861, when it was called the Dartmouth Point Battery, and occupies the former site of the Grand Battery and Lamberd's Bulwarke. On the north-east side of the complex is a guard room, which lay above the magazines. It was protected from attack from the landward side with a ditch, rifle-loops and murder-holes. In the main part of the battery, there are three vaulted casemates to hold traversing heavy guns pointing out to sea, with a smaller gun position covering the harbour entrance; a further two heavy guns would have been positioned on the roof. A white concrete building, originally a coastal gun position disguised as a medieval turret, now acts as a ticket office. Behind the Old Battery complex is a 19th-century tower that functioned as a lighthouse between 1856 and 1886. In Art and Literature Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetical illustration, Dartmouth Castle, in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833, accompanies an engraving of a painting by Thomas Allom showing the Castle and Harbour. This poem reflects how what had been a bastion of war has now become a holiday destination. See also Castles in Great Britain and Ireland List of castles in England Notes References Bibliography External links English Heritage visitors' page Castles in Devon English Heritage sites in Devon Medieval forts in England Device Forts Forts in Devon Tourist attractions in Devon Grade I listed buildings in Devon Grade I listed forts Museums in Devon Military and war museums in England Dartmouth, Devon Military history of Dartmouth