- Type
- Military Defence Installation
- Designated
- 1996
Lower Battery
In French: Batterie inférieure
Also known as Building 85
About Lower Battery
Lower Battery is one of 6 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings in Schmidtville. The register gives 1868–1872 for Lower Battery. The register names Lieutenant-General William F. Drummond Jervois and Lieutenant E. Harding Steward as its architects. 10 neighbours on the registers lie within 400 m.
The Lower Battery at Fort Charlotte, also known as Building 85, looks out from Georges Island over the water to Halifax Harbour. Seen from the seaward, the casemated Lower Battery of Fort Charlotte consists of an irregularly coursed ironstone rubble wall comprising the actual casemate, or armoured artillery compartment, constructed in three planes, with a cut granite parapet and framed window embrasures. The openings to the casemates are framed in cut granite trim and feature two segmental arches. There is a geometrically shaped earth covering the casemates, which are separated by shaped earthen traverses in front of the exterior wall. The lower Battery is a fortification in its own right, built into the counterscarp of the Fort proper, and connected to it by the south caponier. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Lower Battery · Open Government Licence – Canada · quoted as the register has it
Federal heritage buildings are Classified or Recognized; Classified is the higher rank.
Make it a walk: 2 historic places in about 5 minutes
Schmidtville · about 100 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Lower BatteryStart here
- 2Georges IslandNational Historic Site · 100 m on
10 within 300 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Questions about Lower Battery
Can you visit Lower Battery?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
Is Lower Battery protected?
As a Classified federal building, any work on it needs the federal heritage review’s advice while Canada owns it.
When was Lower Battery built?
The record of Lower Battery gives 1868–1872.
What is Lower Battery?
Lower Battery became a Classified Federal Heritage Building in 1996.
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Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
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