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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 NW 139 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Pillbox: Centre Bastion, Sheerness |
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Summary
A concrete pillbox built into one of the emplacements of a practice gun battery (TQ 97 NW 138). It has a hinged metal flap over the gun slit and the mounting for the practice gun on the floor. It is contemporary with the gun towers built to either side of it (TQ 97 NW 110). The unreinforced concrete is severely cracked.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 91364 75347 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ97NW |
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| Parish: | SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PILLBOX (abandoned 1945, Modern - 1913 AD? to 2050 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 concrete pillbox built into one of the emplacements of a practice gun battery (TQ 97 NW 138). It has a hinged metal flap over the gun slit and the mounting for the practice gun on the floor. It is contemporary with the gun towers built to either side of it (TQ 97 NW 110). The unreinforced concrete is severely cracked.(1)
<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document).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> | Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town. |
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