Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mumbles Battery
Mumbles, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mumbles Head, Swansea, Mumbles, designated on 29 October 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1999
- Locality
- Mumbles Head
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Mumbles
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.56681, -3.97090
- Cadw reference
- 22571
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Adjacent to Mumbles Lighthouse on an islet off Mumbles Head.
History
Mumbles Battery was erected in 1860 as a precaution against possible French invasion.
Exterior
Battery of coursed, rock-faced stone with flat roofs, on which the solar module arrays are mounted. Modern blockwork walls are attached to the lighthouse base and the battery. The battery is curved in plan, with outer gun turrets. A doorway in the centre of the inner face has stepped voussoirs to a segmental head, and the date with initials VR over it. There are various blocked windows in this range, which retains stepped lights (to stairs), and angled corner windows to the upper stage.
Interior
The battery retains vaulted ceilings, but now houses service accommodation for the lighthouse.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Mumbles Lighthouse and other associated listed items demonstrating the development of coastal defences here in the C19 and C20.
Nearby in the register
- Mumbles LighthouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Gun Emplacement on S side of Mumbles LighthouseDefenceunder 1 mi
- Gun Emplacement on NE side of Mumbles LighthouseDefenceunder 1 mi
- Magazine on NW side of Mumbles LighthouseDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.