Where to find RCM Ypres Tower
Opening Times & Admissions
Open 7 days a week throughout the year except on 24th and 25th December.
March 30 – October 31: 10:30 – 5:00, last admission 4:30
November 1 – March 29: 10:30 am – 3:30 Last admission 3:00 pm
Admission to the Tower: Adults £5.00
Children under 16 free but must be accompanied by an adult.
Dog friendly, at the discretion of the steward.
It’s likely we will never know exactly when the Ypres Tower was built – there has probably been a fortification and lookout on this spot for thousands of years – but the possibility of building a castle here begins to appear in documents from the 13th Century.
The present day site consists of the ancient main building, several cells added to it in the 19th C, a garden planted with herbs appropriate to a Medieval castle and, at the end of the garden, the Women’s Tower – a specially-designed prison for female inmates built in 1837.
