page_title: Tynemouth Castle and Priory
section_title: Coastal defence and Coastguard station
hierarchical_section_title: Tynemouth Castle and Priory / Subsequent history / Coastal defence and Coastguard station
caption_attribution_description: English: Gun Emplacement - The Battery Tynemouth
context_page_description: Tynemouth Castle is located on a rocky headland, overlooking Tynemouth Pier. The moated castle-towers, gatehouse and keep are combined with the ruins of the Benedictine priory where early kings of Northumbria were buried. The coat of arms of the town of Tynemouth still includes three crowns commemorating the tradition that the Priory had been the burial place for three kings.
context_section_description: At the end of the 19th century the castle was used as a barracks with several new buildings being added. Many of these were removed after a fire in 1936. The castle played a role during World War I and World War II when it was used as a coastal defence installation covering the mouth of the river Tyne. The restored sections of the coastal defence emplacements are open to the public. These include a guardroom and the main armoury, where visitors can see how munitions were safely handled and protected.
  More recently the site has hosted the modern buildings of Her Majesty's Coastguard; however the new coastguard station, built in 1980 and opened by Prince Charles, was closed in 2001.
caption: Gun emplacement within the Priory precinct
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