Brompton Garrison Church
BROMPTON GARRISON CHURCH, MAXWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259691
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Brompton Garrison Church
- Statutory Address:
- BROMPTON GARRISON CHURCH, MAXWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259691
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Brompton Garrison Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROMPTON GARRISON CHURCH, MAXWELL 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:
- BROMPTON GARRISON CHURCH, MAXWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76140 68540
Details
GILLINGHAM
TQ7668NW MAXWELL ROAD, Brompton 686-1/5/16 (North West side) 27/06/91 Brompton Garrison Church
II
Church. 1854. Polygonal limestone rubble and dressings with a slate roof. STYLE: Early English Gothic Revival. PLAN: chancel with aisled nave. EXTERIOR: E chancel gable has angle buttresses with weathered tops, stepped coping and a 3-light stepped lancet window with attached colonnettes, hood mould with small stops and a trefoil above; 3-bay sides have lancets with labels. Taller nave gable, the N and S aisles are 7 bays separated by flying buttresses with attached plinths, diagonal corner buttresses, and paired lancets with quatrefoils above. W end has buttresses flanking the nave gable and a gabled bellcote containing an open 2-light opening as the side lights, above a Lombard frieze; the gable has a 3-light stepped lancet as the E end set in a 2-centre relieving arch, above a gabled porch with 2-centre arched doorway with double doors and trap hinges, and flanking lancets; aisle ends have 2-light windows as the sides. INTERIOR: not inspected, but reported to contain W organ loft on 8 Tuscan columns with stair each side and arched windows; 7-columns to aisles with trefoil decoration. Boarded roof with 3 tiers of through purlins to nave and 2 more to doorcase. FITTINGS: octagonal font and wooden pulpit. MEMORIALS: memorial to men of the Indian campaign 1857 and 1858; chest tomb and effigy to Major General Charles George Gordon CB.
Listing NGR: TQ7614068540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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