Listing Type : Coast Defence Battery
Location : Channel Islands
Tower 9 is a standard Conway tower. Like other towers in Guernsey it has no machicolations on the roof level.
Plans indicate that the Infantry Towers were built with three floors.
- The first storey had a wooden floor, entrance doorway and eleven loopholes.
- The second story had a wooden floor, sleeping accommodation and twelve loopholes.
- The roof or cover was accessed through a central hatchway and provided additional firing positions over a parapet.
When built the infantry towers had no artillery on the roof but from 1803, the towers had their roofs strengthened and a 12-pdr SB carronades were mounted.
By 1833 there was an intention to upgrade these to 18-pdr carronades on the small towers in Jersey.