Listed Building: CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS (1375607)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 686-1, 3, 28
Date assigned 08 July 1998
Date last amended

Description

TQ7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD (West Side), Brompton 3/28 Crimean War Memorial Arch and Gates, Brompton Barracks GV II* Memorial Arch. 1856 by Matthew Digby Wyatt with cast-iron gates. Tripartite archway with keyed round arches, enriched frieze, cornice, foliate brackets flanking taller central arch with a raised inscribed parapet. Pilaster strips have inset inscribed panels and central roundels, relief figures holding flags to upper spandrels, and coffered soffits. Upper entablature inscribed UBIQUE (the Royal Engineers' motto); QUO FASET ET GLORIA DUCUNT. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative bronze gates with wickets to smaller arches. Part of an axially-planned group with the Barracks, Institute and Boer War memorial arch (qqv). Listing NGR: TQ7637169063

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7637 6906 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NE
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM