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St Catherines Castle
In the civil parish of Fowey.
In the historic county of Cornwall (Modern Authority of Cornwall, 1974 county of Cornwall).
Early C16 blockhouse and bastioned curtain wall on the tip of a rocky headland, St Catherine's Point, at the entrance to the River Fowey estuary on the south coast of Cornwall. The curtilage of the blockhouse, as defined by its curtain wall, was refurbished in 1855 to form a gun battery during the Crimean War. After serving as a practice battery in the later C19, it was again modified and re-armed in 1940 as an emplacement in a more extensive Second World War gun battery occupying St Catherine's Point.
This site has been described as a;
Artillery Fort.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 70711)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SX11875093
PastScape number;
432263
- Web site links
- Books
- Campbell, Adele (ed), 2004, Heritage Unlocked; Guide to free sites in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (English Heritage) p42-5
Duffy, Michael, 1999, 'Coastal Defences and Garrisons 1480-1914' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p158-60
Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p20
Saunders, Andrew, 1997, Channel Defences (London; Batsford/English Heritage) p117
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p18
Spreadbury, I. D., 1984, Castles in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (Redruth)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p73
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p289
Price, M. and H., 1980, Castles of Cornwall (Bossiney Books) p12-6
Morley, B., 1976, Henry VIII and the Development of Coastal Defence (London; HMSO)
O’Neil, B.H.St.J., 1960, Castles and Cannon: A Study of Early Artillery Fortifications in England (Oxford: Claredon Press) p45
Braun, Hugh, 1936, The English castle (Batsford)
Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p112-3 [King writes most misleading]
Lysons, D. and S., 1814, Magna Britannia Vol3 Cornwall [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=403]
Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p23
Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol8 p15-6
- Journal Articles
- Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' Archaeological Journal Vol138 p219
1977, Fort Vol4 p83
Saunders, A.D., 1973, 'The coastal defences of Cornwall' Archaeological Journal Vol130 p233
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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