La Crete Fort
| La Crete Fort | ||
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 La Crête Fort 2009 |
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| Creation time : | 1834 | |
| Castle type : | Coastal fort | |
| Conservation status: | well preserved | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | St John | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 15 '5.5 " N , 2 ° 6' 42.6" W | |
| Height: | 6 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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La Crête Fort is a fort at La Crête Point on the north coast of the Channel Island of Jersey , northeast of the village of St John .
history
As early as 1563, a boulevard near La Crête Point was marked on a map of Popinjay . It was not until 1778 that the Jersey militia demanded “the construction of a tower on the landing stage in Bonne Nuit , a battery with two cannons at La Crête Point and an additional loopholes on the existing battery to protect La Crête Point .” On a map from 1787 , drawn by the Duke of Richmond , shows an upper and a lower battery, as well as a guard house at La Crête Point .
In 1813, the States of Jersey fortified La Crête Point and built a battery called Havre Giffard Battery with two French booty guns, a magazine, a storage room and a guardhouse. A barracks for the mobile reserve was built nearby. After Napoleon's defeat , when the other batteries were partially dismantled, La Crête Point kept its two guns.
In 1834 a fort was built on this site. An officer and 30 men from the Royal Jersey Militia could be accommodated there as a crew. Two new 18-pounder guns and four 12-pounder guns came as armament. In the second half of the 19th century the fort lost its military importance and was finally abandoned.
During World War II , the German troops who had occupied the Channel Islands and used it as part of the Atlantic Wall equipped La Crête Fort, which they called "La Crête Resistance Nest", with a 3.7 cm anti-tank gun , an MG 34S 7 heavy machine gun, 92 mm, two light machine guns, a mortar and a 30 cm searchlight . The garrison consisted of three NCOs and 17 men.
In 1968 the fort was made available to Lieutenant Govenor of Jersey as a summer residence. In 2006 it passed into the hands of the Jersey Heritage Trust and was restored as part of the Forts and Towers Project .
Web links and sources
- Commons : La Crête Fort - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- La Crete Fort . Jersey Heritage Trust. See history .
