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Outer Walls and Gateway

A Grade I Listed Building in Hugh town, Isles of Scilly

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Coordinates

Latitude: 49.9156 / 49°54'56"N

Longitude: -6.3189 / 6°19'7"W

OS Eastings: 90075

OS Northings: 10651

OS Grid: SV900106

Mapcode National: GBR BXSX.2H4

Mapcode Global: VGYC4.FDB2

Plus Code: 8CXMWM8J+6F

Entry Name: Outer Walls and Gateway

Listing Date: 14 December 1992

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1291751

English Heritage Legacy ID: 62521

ID on this website: 101291751

Location: Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, TR21

County: Isles of Scilly

Civil Parish: St. Mary's

Built-Up Area: Hugh town

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Isles of Scilly

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


ST. MARY'S

SV9010 THE GARRISON, Hugh Town
1358-0/8/82 Outer walls and gateway

GV I

Bastion walls and gateway. Wall and bastions across neck of
the Hugh begun by Francis Godolphin soon after 1601; batteries
and walls encircling peninsula of 1716-46 by Abraham Tovey,
Master Gunner. Turf and granite coping to facing walls of
dressed granite, the C18 walls being of particularly well-cut
granite. Batteries are mostly angular in plan and are located
in large bastions found principally at Morning Point, Woolpack
Point and south of Steval Point; embrasures to tops of battery
walls and gun emplacements formed by large dressed granite
slabs. Stone sentry box with segmental-arched doorway and ball
finial to pyramidal roof on rampart to east of gateway.
Gateway has label mould over moulded arched doorway with sunk
spandrels; C18 bellcote above surmounts plaque with date 1742
and GR monogram above plaque with monogram AT. The C18
batteries are mostly restorations or rebuilds of mid C17
structures, and their construction followed a report on the
state of the defences by Colonel Christian Lilley in 1715.
Part of an important fortification, centred on Star Castle
(qv). Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
(P Laws: The Buildings of Scilly: Redruth: 1980-: 6, 10; B.H.
St.J.O'Neil: Isles of Scilly: London (HMSO): 1950-: 26, 31-3;
Saunders A: Fortress Britain: Liphook: 1989-: 79-80).


Listing NGR: SV9007510650

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