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- Grain_Tower abstract "Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of this type. It owed its existence to the need to protect the important dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham from a perceived French naval threat during a period of tension in the 1850s.Rapid improvements to artillery technology in the mid-19th century meant that the tower was effectively obsolete as soon as it had been completed. A proposal to turn it into a casemated fort was dropped for being too expensive. By the end of the 19th century the tower had gained a new significance as a defence against raids by fast torpedo boats. It was used in both the First and Second World Wars, when its fabric was substantially altered to support new quick-firing guns. It was decommissioned in 1956 and remains derelict today. The tower has been privately owned since 2005 and was reportedly sold to a new owner in 2014 for £400,000.".
- Grain_Tower buildingEndDate "1848–55".
- Grain_Tower location Grain_Tower__location__1.
- Grain_Tower location Isle_of_Grain.
- Grain_Tower thumbnail Grain_Tower_at_low_tide.jpg?width=300.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageExternalLink Grain_Fort_&_Grain_Tower.htm.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageID "26157936".
- Grain_Tower wikiPageLength "12572".
- Grain_Tower wikiPageOutDegree "43".
- Grain_Tower wikiPageRevisionID "673935001".
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Ashlar.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Barbette.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Brick.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Casemate.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Buildings_and_structures_completed_in_1855.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Forts_in_Medway.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Forts_on_the_River_Thames.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Grade_II_listed_buildings_in_Kent.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Grade_II_listed_forts.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Chatham_Dockyard.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Concrete.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Crown_Estate.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Deptford.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink English_Heritage.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Garrison_Point_Fort.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Grain_Fort.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Granite.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Grain.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Sheppey.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Listed_building.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Martello_tower.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Muzzle-loading_rifle.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Napoleonic_Wars.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink North_Woolwich.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Purfleet.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Quick-firing_gun.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Raid_on_the_Medway.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink River_Medway.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink River_Thames.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Arsenal.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Commission_on_the_Defence_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Scheduled_monument.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Second_Anglo-Dutch_War.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Sheerness.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_boat.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Urban_exploration.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink World_War_I.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink File:Grain-Garrison_Point_forts_OS_7th_Series_map.jpg.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLink File:Grain_Tower_fire_director_tower.jpg.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageWikiLinkText "Grain Tower".
- Grain_Tower builder "United Kingdom".
- Grain_Tower built "1848".
- Grain_Tower caption "Grain Tower at low tide".
- Grain_Tower condition "Poor condition, derelict and decaying".
- Grain_Tower latitude "51.45168".
- Grain_Tower location "Grain, Kent, England".
- Grain_Tower longitude "0.73125".
- Grain_Tower mapType "Kent".
- Grain_Tower materials Brick.
- Grain_Tower materials Concrete.
- Grain_Tower materials Granite.
- Grain_Tower name "Grain Tower".
- Grain_Tower ownership "Private owners".
- Grain_Tower type "Fortification".
- Grain_Tower used "1857".
- Grain_Tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Convert.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:For.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Inflation.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_military_structure.
- Grain_Tower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Grain_Tower subject Category:Buildings_and_structures_completed_in_1855.
- Grain_Tower subject Category:Forts_in_Medway.
- Grain_Tower subject Category:Forts_on_the_River_Thames.
- Grain_Tower subject Category:Grade_II_listed_buildings_in_Kent.
- Grain_Tower subject Category:Grade_II_listed_forts.
- Grain_Tower type ArchitecturalStructure.
- Grain_Tower type MilitaryStructure.
- Grain_Tower type Place.
- Grain_Tower type Location.
- Grain_Tower type Place.
- Grain_Tower type Thing.
- Grain_Tower comment "Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of this type.".
- Grain_Tower label "Grain Tower".
- Grain_Tower sameAs Q20711966.
- Grain_Tower sameAs m.0911jt.
- Grain_Tower sameAs Q20711966.
- Grain_Tower wasDerivedFrom Grain_Tower?oldid=673935001.
- Grain_Tower depiction Grain_Tower_at_low_tide.jpg.
- Grain_Tower isPrimaryTopicOf Grain_Tower.
- Grain_Tower name "Grain Tower".