Fishers Nose Blockhouse |
| Hob Uid: 437591 | |
Location :
City of Plymouth
Non Civil Parish
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| Grid Ref : SX4815053630 |
| Summary : Although depicted on a plot of 1540 as part of Henry VIII's coastal defences, the blockhouse may have been built in the late 15th century and modified in 1523. It is polygonal in plan, and was shown as two-storyed and crenellated with gun embrasures on the lower floor on the 1540 plot. It was incorporated into the lower fort of Plymouth Fort in 1595 and remained as part of the Lower Fort of the Royal Citadel from the 1660s. In 1716 it was renamed `Queen Elizabeth's Tower' . Used as an Air Raid Protection Shelter during World War Two. It is architecturally different from the other Plymouth blockhouses as it has no granite embrasures. |
More information : (SX 48155363) Tower (NR) (Remains of) (NAT). (1)
Fisher's Nose Artillery Tower, Firestone Bay, is part of a system of coastal defence dating from the time of Henry VIII 1537-9. The remains of the tower consist of battered stone rubble walls with part of an old sea wall adjoining. The tower was used as an ARP shelter during the Second World War. (2)
Listed Grade II. (3)
History and description. (4) |