| Summary: | Arthur’s Hall was built in the late 1230s, although building fabric evidence, in the south-east
wall, indicates that the remains of an earlier phase are incorporated within it. Although
the form of this earlier building is unclear, the floor in the north-east corner of the hall
is interrupted as if to accommodate a substantial stair up to the ramparts of the Inner
Bailey. Arthur’s Hall retains service doors at its lower end and scar evidence in the side
wall where the doorway into the cross passage survives. At the upper end, in the southwest
wall, there are remains of a tall doorway from the front of the dais out into the
Inner Bailey and there is evidence for the dais at the upper end. Stratigraphic evidence
in the front wall suggests that the floor level had been raised, perhaps twice, by the 16th
century. Arthur’s Hall remained a significant building until the 17th century, but its current
appearance is a result of a programme to create barracks in the 1740s. Arthur’s Hall was
investigated as part of the Dover Great Tower Project, in support of the re-interpretation
and presentation of the Keep and Inner Bailey. |
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