Listed Building: SAILORS' CHURCH AND FORMER SAILORS' HOME (1086091)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1413, 13, 354 |
Date assigned | 30 October 1985 |
Date last amended |
Description
RAMSGATE ROYAL HARBOUR TR 3864 NW (Military Road) 13/354 Sailors'Church and former 30.10.85 Sailors' Home GV II Sailor's Church and former home. Opened 1878. Red brick with blue brick banding. Slate roof. Three storeys with central gable to lean-to roof, inscribed "Sailors' Home". Five bays of paired lancets on 2nd and 1st floors, with 2 light paired lancets and roundel in ashlar to ground floor. Boarded door in gabled porch to left return. Interior: ground floor church with flat exposed timber ceiling on stone corbels, later C19 wooden seats; lectern of 1878, hexagonal pulpit, both wooden. Four bay Commandment Table with trefoil headed panels and framework of painted stone and marble. Stone stairs in south east end with wooden and iron balustrade. Dormitory upstand used for shipwreck survivors etc, with commemorative tablet to Frederick Lucas at entrance. (Busson, Cap.3, Matkin).
Listing NGR: TR3812864526
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 3812 6452 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR36SE |
Civil Parish | RAMSGATE, THANET, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 9:41AM