MEDWAY HERITAGE CENTRE

MEDWAY HERITAGE CENTRE, DOCK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268229
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: MEDWAY HERITAGE CENTRE
Statutory Address:: MEDWAY HERITAGE CENTRE, DOCK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268229
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: MEDWAY HERITAGE CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: MEDWAY HERITAGE CENTRE, DOCK ROAD

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

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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:: MEDWAY HERITAGE CENTRE, DOCK 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 75743 68421

Details

CHATHAM

TQ7568SE DOCK ROAD 762-1/2/1 (West side) 29/10/52 Medway Heritage Centre (Formerly Listed as: DOCK ROAD (West side) Church of St Mary the Virgin)

GV II

Church, now visitor centre. 1884-87 chancel, tower 1897, nave 1901-03, by Sir AW Blomfield, incorporating earlier parts. Snecked rock-faced ragstone and limestone dressings, with tiled roof. STYLE: Early English Gothic Revival. PLAN: chancel with N and S chapels, aisled nave, and separate SW tower. EXTERIOR: E gable has angle buttresses and 3 stepped lancets, string course and small oval light in the top; 2-bay sides have Y-tracery. Taller nave gable; 5-bay nave has paired clerestory lancets, the aisles have 2-light windows. W gable has coped raking aisle roofs with round-arched Norman style doorways with splayed reveals and zig-zag mouldings, and double doors with strap hinges; a curved 5-light single-storey apse with narrow lights, sill band and half conical roof; beneath the nave gable set back above weathered bands, a 2-light central window with a cinquefoil and flanking single lights. 3-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, weathered plinth, string courses and crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles; S 2-centre arched doorway with double doors beneath a sunken panel with label mould and narrow flat-headed light, a clock in a sunken panel, and a 4-centre arched belfry louvred light with Perpendicular tracery. S chancel chapel has a coped gable with angle buttresses and a stepped 3-light lancet. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having matching 3-bay sedilia and 2-bay piscina with black marble columns and continuous hoodmould, and chancel screen with cusped ogee arches, cresting and cross and a low wall and gate. 3 Norman round arches to the W end, lower to the outer aisle arches, with decayed zig-zag mouldings. Nave has round piers with octagonal caps to chamfered arches with hoodmoulds, and a roof with arch-braced collar trusses and arch-braced purlins. FITTINGS: C19 stone pulpit with marble columns on moulded base and top. C19 octagonal font with cinquefoil panels and a

timber spirelet cover. Triptych by Clayton and Bell, cinquefoil panels with a canopy and picture of the Madonna, organ 1795 by Samuel Green. STAINED GLASS: E window 1891 by Kempe. MEMORIALS: various wall memorials, including a C16 pair of kneeling figures. (The Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: London: 1976-: 200).

Listing NGR: TQ7574368421

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Legacy System number:: 462087
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1969), 200
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1976)

Legal

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