Hackemdown Tower
HACKEMDOWN TOWER, CONVENT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239264
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Hackemdown Tower
- Statutory Address:
- HACKEMDOWN TOWER, CONVENT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239264
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Hackemdown Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- HACKEMDOWN TOWER, CONVENT ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HACKEMDOWN TOWER, CONVENT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadstairs and St. Peters
- National Grid Reference:
- TR3954570282
Details
CONVENT ROAD
(North Side)
BROADSTAIRS
Hackemdown Tower
1.
5283
TR 37 SE 6/81
II
GV
2.
In 1768, Lord Holland opened a barrow on his estate and found a quantity of human
bones. It was believed that these resulted from a battle between the Danes and
the Saxons circa 850. Lord Holland decided to build a monument "in the stile of
very remote antiquity". The clock was added later. Originally the base of the
tower had 4 ogee arches on Doric columns but these have now been removed.
Late C18. A circular flint tower crenellated with yellow brick coping and yellow
brick bands. Flint base. 4 quatrefoil ornaments, 2 blank panels and 1 stone panel
with a Latin inscription. Arched doorcase. The tower is set within a large low
circular wall of brick and flint with crenellated parapet. The inscription reads:
"D.M.
Danorum & Saxonum hic occisorum
Dum de solo britannico
(Milites nihil a se alienum Putant)
Britannis Perfide et crudeliter olim expulsis,
Inter se domicaverunt
HEN: de HOLLAND
Posuit
Qui Duces qualis hujus Praelii Exitus
Nulla Notat Historia
Annum circiter DCCCL evenit Pugna
Et Pugnam hanc evenisse Fidem faciunt
Ossa quamplurima
Quae sub hoc & altero Tumulo huic vicino
Sunt sepulta"
which translated is:
"To the shades of the departed and in memory of the Danes and Saxons who were killed
here whilst fighting for the possession of Britain (soldiers think everything their
own), the Britons already having been perfidiously and cruelly expelled, this was
put up by Henry Holland. History does not record the names of the leaders or the
result of the action. It happened about the year 850 and that it happened here
seems true from the quantity of bones buried in this and the nearby tumulus."
All listed buildings in Port Regis School grounds form a group.
Listing NGR: TR3954570282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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