Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1197 - CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1856 to 1856

Location

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

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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

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Record last edited

Jul 21 2021 3:47PM