Reconstruction illustration showing gunners at Upnor Castle firing canon at Dutch warships as they sail up the River Medway to attack the English fleet moored at Chatham Naval Dockyard in 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War

Date:
circa 1990 - circa 2000
Location:
Upnor Castle, Frindsbury Extra, Upper Upnor, Medway
Reference:
IC105/003
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

Upnor Castle was originally an Elizabethan artillery fort built to defend the River Medway.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC105 Upnor Castle, Kent; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Lapper, Ivan

Keywords

Elizabethan Artillery Fort, Stuart Artillery Fort, Stuart Gun Emplacement, Military, People