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Listed building or place reference: MN0221

Historic site reference
Property
St. Catherine's Tower
Road name
La Route de St. Catherine
Parish
St. Martin
Location
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Grade
Listed Building Grade 1
Category
Anglo-Jersey military structure
Statement of significance
Built in the 1780s, the tower is significant as an integral part of a group of surviving Conway towers in Jersey that not only illustrates the changing political and strategic military history of the Island in the late 18th and 19th century, but represents a turning point in the history of defence strategy across Europe, and global trends in the history of war.
Context
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External Description
St Catherine's Tower is round and tapered, built of regular squared and well-tooled blocks of granite. The upper floors are punctuated with musketry loopholes partially formed in brickwork, with larger granite dressed ventilation windows on each floor and a dressed granite doorway at first floor level (although the modern land surface has been raised behind the sea wall to the level of the door). There are four machicolations at parapet level. The tower is arranged internally on four levels, with a brick vaulted magazine at ground floor, 2 floors above with circuits of musketry loopholes, and a stone paved roof platform with masonry parapet.
Internal Description
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Special interest
Architectural,Historical

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23/02/2013 
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23/02/2013 
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