Monument record TR 03 NE 199 - Pillbox adjoining Chapel and Manor House at Court-at Street

C20 pillbox (prob WW2) abutts S wall of chapel. Polygonal pillbox in good con with reinforcing bars protruding around edge of roof. Concrete gun mountings/shelves intact at all three firing positions (1)

Pillbox visible on Ordnance Survey Mastermap in 2016

Type 24 variant pillbox, with thickened walls, and with embrasures in front and side walls only which are small externally but generously splayed internally and with semi-circular concrete machine gun tables. There is no interior anti-ricochet wall, but a pillar 1ft square from roof to roof just inside the entrance. Three-quarter inch reinforcing rods in the walls extend to about 6ins above the roof and may perhaps have been used to retain an earthen covering or to anchor camouflage netting. The pillbox stands about 2 feet from the chapel's south wall [see plan attached].

Next to medieval chapel, at foot of escarpment above Romney Marsh, Court-at-Street. (1,2)

<1> OS Card / NAR index (Unpublished document). SKE6461.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.

<3> CBA Defence of Britain Project, 1994, Defence of Britain Site Report (Bibliographic reference). SKE6447.