Tyne and Wear HER(4415): Sunderland, John Paul Jones Battery - Details
4415
Sunderland
Sunderland, John Paul Jones Battery
Sunderland
NZ45NW
Defence
Battery
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
The threat posed by Napoleon in the later 18th century prompted a reassessment of coastal defences. This four gun battery on a bank behind the South Pier, known as the John Paul Jones Battery, later known as the Black Cat Battery, was built in the 1770s and appears on Rain's Eye Plan.
4092
5783
NZ40925783
<< HER 4415 >> J. Rain, 1785, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth
Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 37
G. McCombie, 1997, The Development of Sunderland Town Moor, p 15
J.W. Summers, 1858, The History of Sunderland, p 76-85