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rubble masonry, with 8-foot-thick (2.4 m) walls. The tower is a squat, round structure built of stone, almost three times as wide as it is high. The original construction allowed for six mounted guns on the roof and four guns on the second storey. The second storey was intended for barrack use
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on traversing platforms and six 24-pound cannonades on traversing slides on top. After 1864, the Tower was used as a self-defensible depot magazine. The roof was replaced in 2016.
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had a battery built to defend the point batteries. A few years later, the battery was converted to a large round stone tower known as the Prince of Wales Tower, similar to the
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Further modifications were made over the next seventy years. By 1813, the Tower mounted four 6-pound guns on garrison carriages on its barrack level, two 24-pound
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and the ground floor for storage. The tower is 72 feet in diameter and the walls at the base are 8 feet thick. The tower could accommodate 200 soldiers.
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built in large numbers elsewhere by the British military. The Prince of Wales Tower is named after Edward's eldest brother, the future
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ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING IN COLONIAL NORTH America By JAMES D. KORNWOLF, GEORGIANA WALLIS KORNWOLF, p. 1338
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There were five Martello Towers built in Halifax, the Prince of Wales Tower being the last remaining Tower.
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List of oldest buildings and structures in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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high and is 72 feet in diameter. The exposed material is
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Towers of strength: the story of the Martello towers
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