The Priory church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset is a parish church. But it's big. In fact arguably the biggest and you only really get a sense of its scale from a distance like here on the motte of #ChristchurchCastle

Sadly now #AdoorNoMore. The removal of the dressed stone to leave just the rubble fill is rather like looking at a skeleton once the flesh has been stripped away by time #ChristchurchCastle #ChristchurchInDorset

A cheeky little peek of the Great Tower of #ChristchurchCastle from the position where the bailey would have been in this early motte and bailey fortification. For its time it would have seemed quite formidable #ChristchurchInDorset

Even from the motte of #ChristchurchCastle the Priory looms over the town #GlimpsesOfChristchurchPriory #ChristchurchInDorset

When Mouse say #ChristchurchInDorset has an actual castle, if you look at it side on there doesn't appear to be much left. C12 and evidently quite extensive when built #ChristChurchCastle Follow-> #TheGreatTower (2/2)

Mouse didn't expect #ChristchurchInDorset to have an actual castle! Mouse only ever known it as the way to get to Bournemouth from Southampton. It's got the Great Tower, its own motte and used to have a moat too #ChristChurchCastle Follow -> #TheGreatTower (1/2)