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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SE 118 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of the Chattenden Magazine, Hoo St. Werburgh |
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Summary
Chattenden magazine establishment, comprising 5 magazines surrounded by fencing. The site dates from the 1870's. A Small 11-sided concrete pillbox is located at the site, possibly a 1 person sentry post.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7532 7296 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SE |
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| Parish: | HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- MAGAZINE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1875 AD? to 2050 AD)
- PILLBOX (Modern - 1940 AD? to 1945 AD?)
Full description
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Magazine establishment at TQ 7537 7298. 5 magazines surrounded by a Dacoit Fence. Not accessible,in military occupation. Dates from L. 1860' s[sic]. Small 11-sided concrete pillbox, possibly a 1 person sentry post, located at central inward angle of S. boundary fence of Chattenden Magazine Establishment. (WW1) (1)
In 1871 a committee was formed to report on a site for a proposed powder magazine in the Medway area. The site was to hold 40,000 barrels of powder in five magazines in normal circumstances but significantly more in an emergency. The magazines were completed in 1865 using convict labour. They were connected to the Chattenden Barracks which had been completed three years earlier by a railway that ran south to Upnor. A second tramway ran east to Hoo. The new magazines were provided with a barrack for 8 officers and 120 soldiers. The five magazines were built of brick and contained travelling cranes. Each was divided in two by a spine wall and had two porches and a sentry room. They survive today (2)
English Heritage, 2000, The Medway Magazines: The Development of the Buildings (Unpublished document). SKE29243.
CgMs Consulting, 2009, Built heritage basline (sic) assessment in respect of Chattenden Barracks and Lodge Hill, Medway, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE32455.
<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Pers. comm. V. Smith - KCC, 27/5/94. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.
<2> English Heritage, 2013, Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project (Bibliographic reference). SKE31432.
<3> Historic England, 2012, National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula (Digital archive). SKE32442.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2000. The Medway Magazines: The Development of the Buildings. |
| --- | Unpublished document: CgMs Consulting. 2009. Built heritage basline (sic) assessment in respect of Chattenden Barracks and Lodge Hill, Medway, Kent. |
| <1> | Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Pers. comm. V. Smith - KCC, 27/5/94.. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2013. Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project. |
| <3> | Digital archive: Historic England. 2012. National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula. |
