Dymchurch Martello Tower
| Dymchurch Martello Tower | |
|
Kent | |
|---|---|
 Tower 24, Martello Tower, Dymnchurch | |
| Type: | Martello Tower |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TR10162925 |
| Location: | 51°1’38"N, 0°59’45"E |
| History | |
| Built 1805 | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | English Heritage |
| Website: | Dymchurch Martello Tower |
Dymchurch Martello Tower, known also as Tower 24, is a Martello tower on the English Channel coast at Dymchurch in Kent. It stands immediately behind the sea wall.
The tower is a Grade II listed building and a scheduled monument.[1]
The tower, along with several other Martello towers, was built at the opening of the nineteenth century, during the Napoleonic Wars, as part of a coastal defence programme. It was placed to protect the gates of marsh sluices with its counterpart Tower no 25 (which is now largely derelict).[2]
Tower 23 was restored externally in the early 1970s[3] and is currently a private residence. Tower 24 was then restored using Tower 23 as a guide. In 1969, it became the first Martello tower to be opened to the public and remains as a museum of the Martello Towers, owned by English Heritage.
The tower has a 24 pounder muzzle-loading cannon on the gun platform.[2]
Outside links
- Dymchurch Martello Tower – English Heritage
References
- ↑ Martello Tower No 24, Dymchurch - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dymchurch Martello Tower, Kent (pdf) from dymchurch.org
- ↑ Sheila Sutcliffe Martello Towers, p. 9, at Google Books
