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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 97 NW 128
Type of record:Monument
Name:Coast Defence Battery: Centre Bastion, Sheerness

Summary

Coast defence battery of 2 x 7" rifled breech loaders, 2 x 9.2" breech loaders on disappearing carriages and 2 x 64pdr rifled muzzel loaders replacing earlier armament some time between 1845 and 1895. Later gun emplacements have destroyed the 7" gun emplacements located at TQ9127275363 and only one of the emplacements for the 64 pdrs remains at TQ9144975282. The 9.2" emplacements are still visible as slight scaps and a projecting wall, but are probably buried intact. An ammunition store between the guns appears intact although the entrance is now blocked.


Grid Reference:TQ 9136 7532
Map Sheet:TQ97NW
Parish:SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • COASTAL BATTERY (BATTERY, Post Medieval - 1845 AD? to 1895 AD (between))
  • MAGAZINE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1845 AD? to 1945 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

Full description

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On Centre Bastion. Some time between 1845 and 1895 the Two concrete gunpits for 9.2-in. BL guns on disappearing carriages, with underlying magazines. Mainly obliterated but some traces may remain (1), site photographs (2,3).

Coast defence battery of 2 x 7" rifled breech loaders, 2 x 9.2" breech loaders on disappearing carriages and 2 x 64pdr rifled muzzel loaders replacing earlier armament some time between 1845 and 1895. Later gun emplacements have destroyed the 7" gun emplacements located at TQ9127275363 and only one of the emplacements for the 64 pdrs remains at TQ9144975282. The 9.2" emplacements are still visible as slight scaps and a projecting wall, but are probably buried intact. An ammunition store between the guns appears intact although the entrance is now blocked. (4)


<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9556.

<3> 1998, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10227.

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document).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>Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.
<2>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4023. print.
<3>Photograph (Print): 1998. Photograph. 3338. print.
<4>Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town.

Related records

TQ 97 NW 110Part of: Centre Bastion, Sheerness (Monument)