Grouville No 5 tower

Grouville No 5 Tower
Tour du Nord

The States acquired this tower in 1922 but it is now in private ownership

HER record

Built circa 1780s, the tower is significant as an integral part of a group of surviving Conway towers in Jersey that not only illustrates the changing political and strategic military history of the Island in the late 18th and 19th century, but represents a turning point in the history of defence strategy across Europe, and global trends in the history of war.

Conway-pattern tower, circa 1782. The Richmond map shows Grouville Bay with five Conway towers constructed in the southern half of the bay - designated 1-5 from south to north. Put up for disposal to the States of Jersey by the War Department in 1896.

Standard Conway tower pattern. Round and tapered, built of regular squared and well-tooled blocks of granite. The upper floors are punctuated with musketry loopholes with dressed granite doorway raised at first floor level. There are four machicolations at parapet level. Roof platform with masonry parapet.

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  Photograph by Francis de Faye
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