Gatehouse

A gatehouse was a strong building built over the gateway to a city or castle. A gatehouse is found on European castles, manor houses and mansions.

Sometimes gatehouses defended a town by being built across a bridge, a river or a moat, as in Monmouth.

English gatehouses

• Ightham Mote
• Nottingham Castle
• Stokesay Castle
• Stanway Hall, Stanway, Gloucestershire
• Westwood, Worcestershire
• Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire
• Hylton Castle, Hylton, Sunderland

French gatehouses

• Château de Suscinio
• Château de Trécesson
• Château de Vitré

Gatehouse Media

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  The southern entrance to York, Micklegate Bar

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  The entrance to the University of Manchester, built in 1902

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  Barbican gate of Glenarm Castle, County Antrim

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  German gatehouse in Lich, Hesse built in 1782

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  The gatehouse of Thornton Abbey from the outside

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  Kankaimon, the outermost defensive gate of Shuri Castle

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  Puerta del Sol Moorish gateway from Toledo, Spain

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  Ganesh Pol is one of the seven gates of Amber Fort built between 1611 and 1667, India