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Crimean War Memorial Arch and Gates, Brompton Barracks

A Grade II* Listed Building in Gillingham, Medway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3932 / 51°23'35"N

Longitude: 0.5337 / 0°32'1"E

OS Eastings: 576371

OS Northings: 169063

OS Grid: TQ763690

Mapcode National: GBR PPP.PR3

Mapcode Global: VHJLV.67HT

Plus Code: 9F329GVM+7F

Entry Name: Crimean War Memorial Arch and Gates, Brompton Barracks

Listing Date: 8 July 1998

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375607

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469571

ID on this website: 101375607

Location: Brompton, Medway, Kent, ME4

County: Medway

Electoral Ward/Division: River

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Gillingham

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Gillingham St Mark

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


TQ7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(West Side), Brompton


3/28 Crimean War Memorial Arch
and Gates, Brompton
Barracks

GV II*

Memorial Arch. 1856 by Matthew Digby Wyatt with cast-iron gates. Tripartite archway with keyed round arches, enriched frieze, cornice, foliate brackets flanking taller central arch with a raised inscribed parapet. Pilaster strips have inset inscribed panels and central roundels, relief figures holding flags to upper spandrels, and coffered soffits. Upper entablature inscribed UBIQUE (the Royal Engineers' motto); QUO FASET ET GLORIA DUCUNT. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative bronze gates with wickets to smaller arches. Part of an axially-planned group with the Barracks, Institute and Boer War memorial arch (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ7637169063

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 1 December 2016.


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