Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke

Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267807
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke
Statutory Address:: Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267807
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Dec-1996
List Entry Name:: Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke
Statutory Address 1:: Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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 76420 69511

Details

TQ7669NW 686-1/1/90

GILLINGHAM Pembroke CENTRAL AVENUE (south side) Former Chapel at HMS Pembroke

(Formerly Listed as: CENTRAL AVENUE (south side) Chapel at HMS Pembroke)

06/06/84

GV II Formerly known as: Church of St George CENTRAL AVENUE. Chapel, now offices. c1905, chancel remodelled 1948 by Edward Maufe. Red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof.

STYLE: Romanesque Revival.

PLAN: apsidal chancel, transepts and aisled nave.

EXTERIOR: moulded stone plinth, two cill bands, and overhanging eaves, with buttresses between aisle and upper windows; small round-arched aisle and west windows, tall round-arched upper windows. Five bay chancel and seven bay apse, and a man-of-war weather vane; gabled north and south transepts have three lower and a single upper window, with an oculus in the gable. Eleven bay parapeted aisle with matching west porch with a round-arched door with strap hinges, and eleven bay nave; at the east end is a three bay bellcote with buttresses, three open round-arches with bells, and a round central pediment and finial. Gabled west end has three bays separated by buttresses, single lower windows to outer bays and five bay half-domed central apse, and stepped five-light round-arched upper window. South transept has a parapeted east vestry with a porch with weathered ashlar roof and gabled round-arched doorway.

INTERIOR: contains a chancel with boarded and ribbed wooden barrel vault, painted to represent night sky, ribs on clasped marble shafts, and nave has arch-braced crown post roof on moulded corbels, with octagonal piers to aisle arcades with double hollow chamfer arches dying into piers, and narrow aisles.

FITTINGS: organ, free-standing altar candle sticks, lectern and pews, all c1905. Reredos 1916 by W.D Caröe, allegory of the Allies in First World War.

STAINED GLASS: nave, mostly of Chatham ships, and memorial to George V.

HISTORY: part of the complete early C20 HMS Pembroke naval barracks, with the Captain's House, Mess block, barracks and ancillary buildings (qqv). A closely similar design to the chapel at HMS Drake, Plymouth.

Listing NGR: TQ7641969512

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Legacy System number:: 462542
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.