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This
great tower of 90 x 75 feet (plus plinth) dates to the
reigns of either Henry I or early Henry II. It had
pilaster buttresses, two cross-walls inside and a
forebuilding, of which only the foundations remain. The
top two stories of the keep, which was probably about 80
feet tall, are absent. The extensive and once powerful
castle in Kent with its gates, barbican, bridge, chapel
and other buildings has gradually disappeared, save a
pair of fourteenth century gates and some curtain walls
and towers that guard to town of Canterbury. The castle's
major use from sometime in the 12th century was as the
gaol (jail) for the County of Kent.
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