Chapel Of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

The following building shall be added to the list:-

TR 37 SW MARGATE CANTERBURY ROAD

10/344 Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital

GV II

Hospital chapel. 1883 by James Knowles 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: Interior contains a complete set of stained glass (the Parables of Jesus Christ and Healer from St Luke's Gospel possibly 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.

Listing NGR: TR3545770854

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0560 IOE Records taken by Dawn Davison; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mrs Dawn Davison. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project