Volume: Dover Castle, Kent

Description

3831 sheets dating from between the sixteenth century and 2015, including 131 distinct jobs. Although a medieval castle, the plans mainly relate to the site's use as a military barracks between the eighteenth- and twentieth-centuries, and its subsequent life as a visitor centre from the late-twentieth-century onward.

The large number of sheets offer a broad perspective of the site, with plans, sections, elevations, details and surveys recording construction, repairs, modifications and changes of use to many buildings over a long period of time, including the church within its walls, St Mary In Castro. There are also photogrammetric survey and rectified photographic sheets.

A number of sheets relate to the site's underground tunnel complex constructed and used from the Napoleonic wars in the 1810s to World War II in the 1940s, and also proposed (but not adopted) as a cold war nuclear bunker.

Some numbers have not been used: MP/DOV0274 to 285; MP/DOV0499; MP/DOV0500; MP/DOV0679; MP/DOV0744; MP/DOV0870; MP/DOV0903; MP/DOV0938; MP/DOV1000; MP/DOV1009; MP/DOV1524 to 1526. The contents of some of these have been transferred to the Western Heights plans collection, reference PF/WST. There are also a number of plans with A and B suffixes.

See also PF/AFC for Archcliffe Fort; PF/DAD for Admiralty Pier; PF/DBU for Fort Burgoyne; PF/DCB for Connaught Barracks; PF/DLA for Langdon and Fan Hole Batteries; PF/DMH for Dover Military Hospital; PF/DOP for Old Park Barracks; DPB for Dover Practice Battery; PF/WST for Western Heights.

Archival History

MP/DOV0500 was removed and changed to MP/WST0261 because it belonged with Western Heights drawings.

Content

This is part of the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans and Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

© Historic England Archive

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