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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 97 NW 112
Type of record:Monument
Name:No 1 Bastion, Sheerness Lines, Sheerness

Summary

Construction began on Bastion 1 around 1780 and had been completed by 1794 with Bastion No.2 completed around the same time although they were not linked by a curtain wall until 1813. In 1994 a survey found that the rampart round the bastion had been reduced to a height of 1m on its southern and eastern sides, above a well defined berm. Where a small bridge crossed the moat to the Ravelin Battery (TQ 97 NW 15). The rampart has been flattened to the north. At this point the moat has been filled in sometime between 1972 and 1990. To the north at TQ9170675258 the moat has been filled cutting of the moat section along the north-eastern, sea, side of Blue Town and the Dockyard.


Grid Reference:TQ 91 75
Map Sheet:TQ97NW
Parish:SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • BASTION (BASTION, Post Medieval - 1783 AD? to 1783 AD (post))
Protected Status:Scheduled Monument KENT 172a; Scheduled Monument KENT 172c; Scheduled Monument KENT 172b

Full description

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References regarding the relation of the site to other defence sites. (1-4).

Construction began on Bastion 1 around 1780 and had been completed by 1794 with Bastion No.2 completed around the same time although they were not linked by a curtain wall until 1813. In 1994 a survey found that the rampart round the bastion had been reduced to a height of 1m on its southern and eastern sides, above a well defined berm. Where a small bridge crossed the moat to the Ravelin Battery (TQ 97 NW 15). The rampart has been flattened to the north. At this point the moat has been filled in sometime between 1972 and 1990. To the north at TQ9170675258 the moat has been filled cutting of the moat section along the north-eastern, sea, side of Blue Town and the Dockyard.

The bastion retains the remains of a number of gun emplacements and associated sites (TQ 97 NW 131/132/133 & 134) (5)


<1> Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines/ink survey (Graphic material). SKE6433.

<2> Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines/overlay (Graphic material). SKE6434.

<3> Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines (Bibliographic reference). SKE6438.

<4> RCHME: Sheerness Defences, Kent (Collection). SKE6533.

<5> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Graphic material: Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines/ink survey. PER. PEN.
<2>Graphic material: Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines/overlay. PER. PEN.
<3>Bibliographic reference: Sheerness Defences, the Sheerness Lines. PAP. TYP.
<4>Collection: RCHME: Sheerness Defences, Kent.
<5>Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town.

Related records

TQ 97 NW 133Parent of: 19th Century Harbour Defence Battery, Bastion No.1, Sheerness Lines, Sheerness (Monument)
TQ 97 NW 134Parent of: Harbour Defence Battery: Bastion No.1, Sheerness Lines, Sheerness (1890s) (Monument)
TQ 97 NW 132Parent of: Second World War Harbour Defence 6" Battery Bastion No.1, Sheerness Lines, Sheerness (Monument)
TQ 97 NW 131Parent of: Spigot Mortar (Site of) , Bastion No.1, Sheerness (Monument)
TQ 97 NW 15Part of: The Ravelin, Sheerness Lines, Sheerness (Monument)
TQ 97 NW 109Part of: The Sheerness Lines (Monument)