Monument Number 320044 |
| Hob Uid: 320044 | |
Location :
Nottinghamshire
Rushcliffe
Shelford
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| Grid Ref : SK6613042340 |
| Summary : The remains of a Civil War gun battery, located 50 metres south west of St Peter and St Paul's Church, Shelford, and consists of earthworks defining a horseshoe-shaped bank up to 0.6 metres in height and 5 metres in width. Contemporary documentary sources record the existence of a Royalist garrison at Shelford manor between early 1642 and November 1645 when it was stormed by Parliamentarian forces. During the attack on Shelford village itself a contemporary document records that the Parliamentarians were fired upon by snipers hidden in the church tower. The location of the monument on a rise overlooking a tactically important crossing over the Trent, in addition to the documentary evidence for Civil War activity in the vicinity, is interpreted as suggesting that the monument was a Royalist defensive work designed to protect the western approaches to Shelford. Scheduled. |
More information : [SK 6613 4234] Civil War defence mound 30 yards west of church. (1)
The mound is without doubt a gun position of the Civil war period.
It is of horse-shoe shape, facing the lane to the ferry. It may
have been an outer defence to Shelford Manor [SK 64 SE 2.] (2)
When the Parliamentary forces, moving to attack Shelford Manor,
occupied Shelford village, in November 1645, they were fired on
by Royalist snipers in the church tower. They smoked out the snipers
with burning straw and took them prisoner. [No mention of a gun
position at the church but the account supports the suggestion of
an outlying defence at the church.] (3)
Add. ref. to church snipers. (4)
Earthwork correctly described and classified by authy. 2. It is
located in the graveyard of the church but has not been mutilated
by grave digging. At no point does the maximum height of the rampart
exceed 0.6m. Surveyed 20.9.60 (5)
No change. (6)
(SK66134234) Earthwork (NR) (7)
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