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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529212

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey