Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1197 - CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7637 6906 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ76NE |
County | KENT |
Civil Parish | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
Unitary Authority | MEDWAY |
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Full Description
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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Jul 21 2021 3:47PM