page_title: Chavonnes Battery
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Chavonnes Battery / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Titel catalogus Leupe (NA): Plan der Batterie Chavonnes]. Notities verso: No. 9 Batterij Chavonnes, Register 10, Deel 1, Folio 40, Portefeuille … [geschreven op een blauw etiket] / 493 [met vette cijfers gestempeld op een etiketje] / no. 212 / 5 c. [onder elkaar geschreven]. English: Title in the Leupe catalogue (National Archives): Plan der Batterie Chavonnes]. Notes on reverse: No. 9 Batterij Chavonnes, Register 10, Deel 1, Folio 40, Portefeuille … [written on a blue label] / 493 [in bold figures stamped on a small label] / no. 212 / 5 c. [written one below the other].
context_page_description: The Chavonnes Battery was a fortification protecting Cape Town, South Africa, built in the early 18th century. It is now a museum and function venue.
context_section_description: The battery was one of the coastal fortifications of the Cape Peninsula linked to the Castle of Good Hope. It was built in 1714–1725 by the Dutch East India Company, and named after its originator, Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes, who was the governor of the Cape Colony.
  The battery was built in a “U” shape with a stone wall built on a rocky outcrop on the Western flank at the waters edge. It had 16 mounted guns with an arc of fire of nearly 180 degrees. The battery also served as a prison and a quarantine and convalescent wing of the old Somerset Hospital.
  It was used to protect the bay and town until 1861 when construction work started on the Alfred basin and some of the stone and rubble from the site was used to create a breakwater. Further damage occurred when coal bunkers and later a fish factory were built over the site.
caption: Sketch of the Chavonnes battery
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