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Monument details

Summary

One of several new detached works south of Chatham built to provide advance defences for the dockyard and to deny the cross-Medway bridge at Rochester to an enemy. Dating to 1819. This tower was situated west of Fort Pitt.

Monument Types

• TOWER (Post Medieval to Modern - 1819 AD to 2000 AD? (between))

Full description

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One of several detached works built south of Chatham to provide advance defences for the dockyard and to deny the cross-Medway bridge at Rochester to an enemy. Dating to 1819. The Delce Tower was one of several new detached works, built in the Napoleonic period to provide advance defences for the dockyard and to deny the cross-Medway bridge at Rochester to the enemy. The other works were Fort Clarence (TQ 76 NW 68), Fort Pitt (TQ 76 NE 84) and the Gibraltar Tower (TQ 76 NE 348). The Delce and Gibraltar Towers flanked Fort Pitt.
Little remains of the tower. A brick revetted ditch and casemate were noted next to the brick and stone traces of the tower in 1994 [1].
Additional information/conservation ideas [2 and 3].

<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, 1994, From Tudor Rose to Mushroom Cloud. The Gazetter of Defence Heritage Sites in the Kentish Part of the Thames Gateway. An Overview (Unpublished document). SKE12458.

<2> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<3> Victor Smith, 1994, Fort Bridgewoods Delce Tower, Rodmersham, A.A. Site (Unpublished document). SWX7001.

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