4 BRONZE GUN CARRIAGES SITUATED IN FRONT OF THE POWELL COTTON MUSEUM BUILDING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1094670
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:: 4 BRONZE GUN CARRIAGES SITUATED IN FRONT OF THE POWELL COTTON MUSEUM BUILDING
Statutory Address:: 4 BRONZE GUN CARRIAGES SITUATED IN FRONT OF THE POWELL COTTON MUSEUM BUILDING

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1094670
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:: 4 BRONZE GUN CARRIAGES SITUATED IN FRONT OF THE POWELL COTTON MUSEUM BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: 4 BRONZE GUN CARRIAGES SITUATED IN FRONT OF THE POWELL COTTON MUSEUM BUILDING

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 4 BRONZE GUN CARRIAGES SITUATED IN FRONT OF THE POWELL COTTON MUSEUM BUILDING

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Birchington
National Grid Reference:: TR3084968285

Details

1. QUEX PARK 1380 BIRCHINGTON-ON-SEA 4 bronze gun carriages situated in front of the Powell Cotton Museum building TR 36 NW 9/286

2. No 1 is a gun from the Papal States cast at Amsterdam in 1637. Dolphin handles. No 2 is a Venetian Fort gun captured by the Turks and recovered in 1828. No 3 and 4 are Naval 32 powder guns from the Royal George sunk off Spithead in 1782. One was made in 1743 and the other in 1759. Both have dolphin handles.

Listing NGR: TR2897269437

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Legacy System number:: 356659
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.