REPORT ON THE SURVEY OF THE HOSPITAL COMPLEX AT FORT CUMBERLAND
Author(s): Dave Fellows, Paddy O'Hara
Fort Cumberland is an 18th-century fort built on the shingle spit of Eastney Point on the south-eastern corner of Portsea Island. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Hampshire monument no. 277) and is the home of English Heritage's Centre for Archaeology. It is described in the English Heritage's Visitors' Handbook as 'perhaps the most impressive piece of 18th-century defensive architecture in England'.The Hospital Complex developed around the Storehouse of the mid-18th century fort and was in use as a hospital by 1861, making it one of the earliest surviving permanent military hospitals established in the wake of the Crimean War. This report contains the results of the survey of the buildings undertaken prior to their conservation and refurbishment.
- Report Number:
- 75/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 46
- Keywords:
- Artillery Fort Post Medieval Standing Building Survey
