So today we have a special one for you, the main magazine of Fort Pitt in Chatham Kent.
Fort Pitt is a Napoleonic era fort built in 1805. It's situated on the high ground overlooking the South bank of the River Medway, between the boundaries of Chatham and Rochester in Kent.
The fort was named after Prime Minister William Pitt and was an integral part of the fortifications that formed a defensive ring around Chatham Dockyard, a location of huge strategic and naval importance at the time.
Fort Pitt was constructed using red-brick in a trapezoid shape featuring a bastion at each corner. On the Northern face there was a detached casemated set of barracks forming the blockhouse designed to house 500 men. These were surrounded by a 15-20 foot deep defensive trench. On the southern edge there was a defended outwork named a Ravelin reached via a covered passage across the dry ditch named a Caponier.
There were a number of buildings in the forts interior such as a hospital block, barracks, storehouses and magazines. Chief among the features was a three-story main tower, comparable to a number of others built in Medway at the time, such as the one still standing at nearby Fort Clarence.
The main fort was approached from the North-East via a road which entered the fort using a drawbridge going over the dry moat. This entry way was watched over by a guardhouse located to the east of the casemated blockhouse. Entry to the blockhouse itself was through an underground passageway leading from a separate guardhouse situated inside the counterscarp wall to the west of the blockhouse.
The fort had two outlying defences named Delce Tower to West and Gibraltar Tower to the North-East. These towers were built to control the roads leading towards Rochester bridge. Delce Tower was connected to the main fort via a covered way leading out from the Ravelin.
EDIT: In the video we mistakenly referenced this as being one of the Palmerston forts. It is actually just classed as a Napoleonic fort, built much earlier than the Palmerston Forts.
EDIT: It was in 1860 the Army Medical School opened at the recommendation of Florence Nightingale.
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