Description

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TR 37 SW
10/344

MARGATE CANTERBURY ROAD

Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital

GV II

Hospital chapel. 1882-3 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style. Polychrome brickwork with slate roof and some stone dressings. 6 bay nave with
1 bay chancel and lower apsidal ended sanctuary and small octagonal tower with brick spire and stone finial to north west. West gable has 5-light traceried windows.
5 arched windows with double lancets with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs above and easternmost window with 3 trefoil headed lancets and 3 quatrefoils all divided by buttresses. Gabled south porch. Interior: The interior contains a very fine series of stained glass depicting miracles and healing plants by Clayton and Bell. Encaustic tiled floor to chancel and sanctuary and central strip to nave. Hammer beam roof and stencilled decorations to walls. Wall painting to west end. Octagonal font with marble columns. There is a Willis organ with stencilled pipes.

Listing NGR: TR3545770854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534700

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)