Laboratory Battery

Date:
30 Aug 1999
Location:
Laboratory Battery, Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, Somerset
Reference:
IOE01/00048/04
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 Laboratory Battery ST 36 SW 1/81 II 2.

1866-1868, built as part of the Palmerston forts ["follies"]. Double battery with 2 barbettes. Inside a semi-circular parapet wall of squared dressed rubble. Outer ramp of earth and stone. Each pit has racer cannon pivot (remains of Geo III cannon) and displaced 7 ton 7 inch cannon of 1860's. Two underground ammunition chambers at rear: dressed limestone exterior: interior brick barrel vaulted roof. See Barret, J.M. "Maritime Forts in the Bristol Channel".

Listing NGR: ST2307960793

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

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