Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital
CHAPEL OF ROYAL SEA BATHING HOSPITAL, CANTERBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241852
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ROYAL SEA BATHING HOSPITAL, CANTERBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241852
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ROYAL SEA BATHING HOSPITAL, CANTERBURY 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:
- CHAPEL OF ROYAL SEA BATHING HOSPITAL, CANTERBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 34332 70456
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/10/2018
TR 37 SW
10/344
MARGATE CANTERBURY ROAD
Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital
GV II
Hospital chapel. 1882-3 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style. Polychrome brickwork with slate roof and some stone dressings. 6 bay nave with
1 bay chancel and lower apsidal ended sanctuary and small octagonal tower with brick spire and stone finial to north west. West gable has 5-light traceried windows.
5 arched windows with double lancets with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs above and easternmost window with 3 trefoil headed lancets and 3 quatrefoils all divided by buttresses. Gabled south porch. Interior: The interior contains a very fine series of stained glass depicting miracles and healing plants by Clayton and Bell. Encaustic tiled floor to chancel and sanctuary and central strip to nave. Hammer beam roof and stencilled decorations to walls. Wall painting to west end. Octagonal font with marble columns. There is a Willis organ with stencilled pipes.
Listing NGR: TR3545770854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441093
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Kent: North East and East, (1983), p.441
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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