| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), on waste ground S of railway, Springfield |
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| SMR Number: | 10146 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 727 081 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL70NW |
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| Parish: | CHELMSFORD, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
Facing NE across the sunken railway cutting is a 14' x 15' concrete pillbox with a blast wall off its SW face.
Full description
1994: Facing NE across the sunken railway cutting is a 14' x 15' concrete pillbox with a blast wall off its SW face. It stands on waste ground 50 yards to the N of the B1137 road. There are three loopholes, plus one in the blast wall, and the walls are 3'6" thick. The pillbox is in a dilapidated condition with spray paint on the outside and much of the interior corrugated iron shuttering rusty and hanging off. One photo of site. <1>
1994: SITE ASSESSMENT: The site is up for sale and the pillbox will probably be demolished.
2007: The site was sold, re-developed and the pillbox demolished. The area is now an Aldi Supermarket.
<1> Nash, Fred, 1996, WWII defences, one frame (Photograph). SEX31461.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 2
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 2.11
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Photograph: Nash, Fred. 1996. WWII defences. one frame. |
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