JERSEY

JERSEY.

Jersey Forteresses.
Plan of Elizabeth Castle by Thomas Phillips.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 05.02.1980.
Face value: 13 Jersey pence.
Design: T.H.O.S. Phillips
Printed by Joh. Enschedé Stamps, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 415,790 copies.
Size: 35.2 x 27.3 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 208.
- Michel No. 214.
- Scott No. 224.
- StampWorld No. 208. 
- Stanley Gibbons No. 224.
- Unificato No. 208.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 208.

Elizabeth Castle (Norman language: Lé Châté Lîzabé) is located on a tidal island called L’Islet within the parish of Saint Helier. It was constructed, between 1626 and 1636 when the power of cannon meant that the existing stronghold at Mont Orgueil was insufficient to defend the Island and the port of St. Helier was vulnerable to attack by ships armed with cannon. It is named after Elizabeth I who was queen of England around the time the castle was built. Today, Jersey Heritage administers the site as a museum. Among the historical displays is the regimental museum of the Royal Jersey Militia that holds several centuries of military memorabilia.

Thomas Phillips (1635-1693) was an military engineer and topographical watercolourist, came to Ireland from England in the winter of 1685 during the reign of James II to survey and report on the principal fortified places, castles, forts, and garrisons and to draw exact designs of their present condition and estimate the cost of any necessary repairs. He had worked in the Channel Islands (1679), making maps and plans of probable landing places and of defences needed.