Description

TQ 9175 SW
933/2/116
15.03.1977

GARRISON ROAD
Sheerness Dockyard
Boundary wall extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard

GV
II

Includes: Boundary wall, extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard, HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD
Dockyard boundary wall. 1824-31, by Sir John Rennie. Yellow stock brick with granite plinth and coping. Tall wall with a band of granite ashlar, above which shallow buttresses divide the wall into square panels. Extends approximately 500 metres SE from Nos 1 and 2 Main Gate to the N of the former Dockyard Church (qqv), from where a section ramps down to extend to meet the retaining wall in front of the Church. The main wall runs E of the Dockyard House garden (qv), where it contains a segmental- arched doorway leading from Church Road for officers going to church. The wall along the S side of the yard extends from the Wend of Naval Terrace (qv), and extends W for approx. 300m before turning S for approx. 170m; in the corner ramps lead up to an entrance.
This section of wall facing High Street has square lamps on cast-iron brackets attached at intervals. HISTORY: built by Rennie to enclose his complete rebuilding of the Sheerness yard in the 1820s. Of historic interest, and part of a good group with the officers' accommodation, church and offices (qqv) in the little-altered SE corner of the yard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 182; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41).

TQ 9175 SW
933/2/116

HIGH STREET
Sheerness Dockyard
Boundary wall, extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard

GV
II

See under: Boundary wall extends from Main gate round S and E sides
of former Dockyard, GARRISON ROAD, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD

Listing NGR: TQ9134575068

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550194

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