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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 NW 138 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Practice Battery: Centre Bastion, Sheerness |
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Summary
A practice gun emplacement battery built in 1899. It survives except where a later pillbox has been built into one of the emplacements.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 91357 75348 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ97NW |
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| Parish: | SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- AMMUNITION DUMP (Post Medieval to Unknown - 1870 AD?)
- COASTAL BATTERY (Abandoned, Post Medieval to Modern - 1899 AD? to 1940 AD? (at some time))
| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 1471141: Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion |
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Full description
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A practice gun emplacement battery built in 1899. It survives except where a later pillbox has been built into one of the emplacements.(1)
The battery was located above a probable ammunition store built into the rampart.(2)
<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.
<2> Scott Wilson, 2013, Sheerness Port: Historic Environment Assessment Report, structure 25 (Unpublished document). SKE29508.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Scott Wilson. 2013. Sheerness Port: Historic Environment Assessment Report. structure 25. |
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