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Latitude: 51.5221 / 51°31'19"N
Longitude: 0.7876 / 0°47'15"E
OS Eastings: 593485
OS Northings: 184039
OS Grid: TQ934840
Mapcode National: GBR RR4.FY7
Mapcode Global: VHKHV.L0QG
Plus Code: 9F32GQCQ+R2
Entry Name: Proof and Experimental Establishment, Shoebury Garrison, Old Ranges, Former Light Quick Firing Battery
Listing Date: 28 April 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1236492
English Heritage Legacy ID: 122965
ID on this website: 101236492
Location: Gunners Park, Cambridge Town, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS3
County: Southend-on-Sea
Electoral Ward/Division: Shoeburyness
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: South Shoebury St Andrew with St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Architectural structure Artillery battery
PROOF AND EXPERIMENTAL
1.
ESTABLISHMENT, SHOEBURY
5219
GARRISON
Old Ranges: Former
TQ 98 SW SP/724 Light Quick-Firing
Battery
II
2.
Light Quick-Firing Battery, now disused, former casemates, 1870s, remodelled early
1890s as Light Quick-Firing Battery. Stock brick with iron frame, C20 rendering to
upper part. 2 chambers set askew. Right part: massive piers with black brick quoins
flanking iron frame of 3 bays. Wooden door frame (door missing) between 2 upright
girders supporting wall plate. Iron-clad barrel-vaulted roof with mantle rail above
blocked casemate. Part of plank floor survives. Left part: Truncated and re-fronted
in yellow brick with four-course relieving arch above small wooden door frame. Buttresses
at left corner have traces of high brick arches, now demolished. Three-bay barrel-vaulted
roof with brick infill; C20 brick partition. Interesting late example of a casemate
and unique because referred to as an'experimental casemate'in contemporary documents.
A photograph (PIB/202) of c.1896-8 shows the arrangement of rifle muzzle loading guns
on the pier.
Listing NGR: TQ9348584039
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