Garden Battery

Date:
30 Aug 1999
Location:
Garden Battery, Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, Somerset
Reference:
IOE01/00048/02
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

STEEPHOLM ISLAND 1.

5121 Garden Battery ST 36 SW 1/83 II 2.

1866-68 built as part of the Palmerston forts ["follies"]. Originally a double enclosure, (Pits 1 and 2) but World War II battery built on top of pit 1. Pit 2 has a semi-circular parapet wall of limestone rubble on the inside: an earth and stone bank on the outside. The racer, cannon pivot (remains of Geo III cannon) and displaced 7 ton 7 inch gun survive. See Barrett, J.M. "Maritime Forts in the Bristol Channel".

Listing NGR: ST2315060589

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1303 IOE Records taken by Robert Mair; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Robert Mair. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Mair, Robert

Rights Holder: Mair, Robert

Keywords

Earth, Limestone, Rubble, Stone, Georgian Cannon, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Street Furniture, Wall, Monument (By Form), Barrier, Coastal Battery, Defence, Coastal Defence Site, Battery, Maritime, Military Coastal Defences