Description

RAMSGATE ROYAL HARBOUR
TR 3864 NW
(Military Road)
13/354 Sailors'Church
and former
30.10.85 Sailors' Home
GV II
Sailor's Church and former home. Opened 1878. Red brick with blue brick
banding. Slate roof. Three storeys with central gable to lean-to roof,
inscribed "Sailors' Home". Five bays of paired lancets on 2nd and 1st
floors, with 2 light paired lancets and roundel in ashlar to ground floor.
Boarded door in gabled porch to left return. Interior: ground floor church
with flat exposed timber ceiling on stone corbels, later C19 wooden seats;
lectern of 1878, hexagonal pulpit, both wooden. Four bay Commandment Table
with trefoil headed panels and framework of painted stone and marble. Stone
stairs in south east end with wooden and iron balustrade. Dormitory upstand
used for shipwreck survivors etc, with commemorative tablet to Frederick
Lucas at entrance. (Busson, Cap.3, Matkin).

Listing NGR: TR3812864526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26375719

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)