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Monument details

Summary

A series of casemates, known as the East Casemates, are located on the north eastern side of Godwin Road. These were constructed in 1850’s and provided a series of separate barracks and workshops within the rampart along Godwin Road. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• CASEMATE (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD to 2050 AD)
• FORGE (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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A series of casemates, known as the East Casemates, are located on the north eastern side of Godwin Road. These were constructed in 1850’s and provided a series of separate barracks and workshops within the rampart along Godwin Road. There are eight casemates in all: one smaller just west of the Gallery entrance, one partly set back in the entrance to Pencester’s Gallery, and six more along the road to the south-east. They are built with a high brick wall providing a revetment to the full height of the rampart, and formed beneath road brick arches, with glazed timber screens on a low brick wall. summarised from sources (1-2)

<1> English Heritage, 2014, Dover Castle Conservation Management Plan Volume 2 Gazetteer (Unpublished document). SKE52105.

<2> Johnathan Coad, 1995, English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover (Monograph). SKE52106.

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