Sailors' Church and Former Sailors' Home
SAILORS' CHURCH AND FORMER SAILORS' HOME, MILITARY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086091
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sailors' Church and Former Sailors' Home
- Statutory Address:
- SAILORS' CHURCH AND FORMER SAILORS' HOME, MILITARY ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086091
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sailors' Church and Former Sailors' Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAILORS' CHURCH AND FORMER SAILORS' HOME, MILITARY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SAILORS' CHURCH AND FORMER SAILORS' HOME, MILITARY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 38128 64526
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Matkin, R B, Maritime Thanet, (1982)
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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