This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
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4412 WOOLWICH CHURCH STREET SE18 (North Side)
Royal Dockyard.
Gun emplacements on riverside to North-East of entrance, and gunposts facing TQ 4279 7/444
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Early C19. Set upon granite sea wall a low brick fortification having 2 splayed gun embrasurers lined with sandstone and topped with thick, granite blocks.
Immediately behing these, at either side, a circular platform stepped and sloped down from fortifying wall and up from road behind. Sandstone on brick foundation, steps and floor of granite. In centre round block with pin to form turntable; and metal rail around outer segment. These supported late C18 or early C19 naval pieces, on wood carriage platforms swivelling through an angle of about 3000. One of the guns is now in Plumstead Library museum. 2 posts made of filled gun barrels well sunk into the ground, with rings for chains embedded in tops.
Probably used for help in swivelling guns.
Listing NGR: TQ4295478475
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0277 IOE Records taken by Richard M Brown; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Richard M. Brown. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Brown, Richard M.
Rights Holder: Brown, Richard M.
Brick, Granite, Sandstone, Georgian Gun Emplacement, Victorian Defence, Fortification
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