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
Tagged with: Triumphal arch War memorial
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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