Roman Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Name Sir John Moore Barracks
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF THE MOST HOLY NAME SIR JOHN MOORE BARRACKS, EAST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380076
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Name Sir John Moore Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF THE MOST HOLY NAME SIR JOHN MOORE BARRACKS, EAST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380076
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Name Sir John Moore Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF THE MOST HOLY NAME SIR JOHN MOORE BARRACKS, EAST ROAD
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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.
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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF THE MOST HOLY NAME SIR JOHN MOORE BARRACKS, EAST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 20149 35768
Details
TR 23 NW FOLKESTONE EAST ROAD
Shornecliffe
10/10007 Roman Catholic Chapel
of the Most Holy Name,
Sir John Moore Barracks
II
Roman Catholic military chapel. 1966-8 by Zbigniew Jan Piet (Pietruszewski) of Brian and Norman Westwood, Piet and Partners for the John Moore Barracks. Timber frame on reinforced concrete foundations, brick west wall. Shingled roof replaced in artificial slates c.1994. Broadly triangular plan, with one curved wall, set into a mound of earth and on a tiny scale. Foundations of concrete with polythene sheet formwork to give a smooth, shiny finish to low internal walls. From them rise a soaring triangular timber roof, horizontally boarded on one side, vertically boarded on the other, with steel braced timber trusses supporting clerestory. The west end has simple openings to mezzanine meeting room and over entrance with pivotted single door set down steps to side. Some yellow glass survives in the sanctuary and clerestory, intended to impart a warm tone. Interior comprises single worship space with altar set forward of East end, in sanctuary area set up one step. Rear has spiral staircase leading to meeting room and choir balcony. The south wall has stations of the cross in fibre glass by John McCarthy, conceived, says Piet, in a row like a comic strip. On the west wall a Madonna, also by McCarthy. Bench seating for 100 worshipers. When the firm of Brian and Norman Westwood, Piet and Partners were commissioned to build a new barracks in c. 1961, Piet's deeply felt Catholicism led him to take personal responsibility for the chapel. The form of the building he describes as a tent, devised in memory of years spent in the Boy Scouts and made of Polish timber he personally selected at the docks. The style of the building is also reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unitarian Church at Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin, though the scale is tiny and the form more fluid. The result is an unusually well-made chapel for its date, a work of deep religious commitment that mixes nostalgia for the architect's native Poland with a gratitude for what Britain had given him since his exile here in 1945. The Architectural Review for May 1996 described it as 'the numinous in an unexpected quarter'.
Sources: Architectural Review, May 1969 & Architectural Review, May 1996.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Dated: 25 {;tI. J~ .2()(}0 ji; , ( ~
PAUL ALSEY
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listing NGR: TR2014935768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural Review in May, (1969)
Architectural Review in May, (1996)
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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