Garden Battery is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1983. Military structure.
Garden Battery
- WRENN ID
- plain-hall-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1983
- Type
- Military structure
- Address
- Garden Battery, Weston-Super-Mare
- OS grid reference
- ST 231 606
- Coordinates
- 51.33962, -3.10471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden Battery on Steepholm Island was built between 1866 and 1868 as part of the Palmerston forts, often referred to as "follies." Originally, it featured a double enclosure with two pits, but during World War II, a battery was constructed on top of pit 1. Pit 2 retains a semi-circular parapet wall made of limestone rubble on the inside, with an earth and stone bank on the outside. Notable surviving features include the racer, the remains of a cannon pivot from a George III cannon, and a displaced 7-ton 7-inch gun. For further details, see J.M. Barrett's "Maritime Forts in the Bristol Channel."
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