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Description: | An early 16th century blockhouse and bastioned curtain wall on the tip of a rocky headland, St Catherine's Point, at the entrance to the River Fowey estuary on the south coast of Cornwall. The curtilage of the blockhouse, as defined by its curtain wall, was refurbished in 1855 to form a gun battery during the Crimean War. After serving as a practice battery in the later 19th century, it was again modified and re-armed in 1940 as an emplacement in a more extensive Second World War gun battery occupying St Catherine's Point. The blockhouse, curtain wall and later battery are Listed Grade II* and are in the care of the Secretary of State. The site is also Scheduled. | Subjects: | Bastion Curtain Wall Defence Magazine Maritime Observation Post Pillbox (Variant) Loopholed Wall Coastal Battery Pillbox Blockhouse | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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