Monument Number 924158 |
Hob Uid: 924158 | |
Location : Essex Colchester East Mersea
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Grid Ref : TM0719015160 |
Summary : A Tudor artillery castle and blockhouse situated on Mersea Island evident as earthwork remains, roughly triangular in plan. The blockhouse was commissioned by Henry VIII in 1543 to protect the strategically important Colne estuary. |
More information : (TM 07201518) Tudor blockhouse surviving as a faint earthwork. The site was recognised from the air and subsequently surveyed. It has been partially destroyed by construction of the sea wall. The fort was built in 1547 and appears to have been an earthen structure - there is no evidence for brick or stonework. It was abandoned in 1552, refortified in the 1580's and still in use in 1631. It appears on a map dated to 1656, around the time it finally fell into disuse. The remainning earthwork survived to be recorded by the OS in 1897. (1)
Additional references. (2-4)
Listed by Cathcart King. It was actured in 1648. (5) |