Crimean War Memorial Arch and Gates, Brompton Barracks

CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1375607
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Crimean War Memorial Arch and Gates, Brompton Barracks
Statutory Address:
CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1375607
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Crimean War Memorial Arch and Gates, Brompton Barracks
Statutory Address 1:
CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY 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 76371 69063

Details

TQ7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(West Side), Brompton


3/28 Crimean War Memorial Arch
and Gates, Brompton
Barracks

GV II*

Memorial Arch. 1856 by Matthew Digby Wyatt with cast-iron gates. Tripartite archway with keyed round arches, enriched frieze, cornice, foliate brackets flanking taller central arch with a raised inscribed parapet. Pilaster strips have inset inscribed panels and central roundels, relief figures holding flags to upper spandrels, and coffered soffits. Upper entablature inscribed UBIQUE (the Royal Engineers' motto); QUO FASET ET GLORIA DUCUNT. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative bronze gates with wickets to smaller arches. Part of an axially-planned group with the Barracks, Institute and Boer War memorial arch (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ7637169063

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 1 December 2016.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
469571
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 01/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/41199
War Memorials Online, accessed 01/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/245226

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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