Description

TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(west side), Brompton
3/33
North block and attached basement area railings, Brompton Barracks

GV II*

Formerly known as: Armoury range, New Royal Artillery Barrack, Chatham Lines PASLEY ROAD. Artillery, later Royal Engineers' barracks. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor to the Office of Works, and Lt.-Col R D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. PLAN: axial plan with central barrack chapel, transverse stair passages, back-to-back barrack rooms and end rear wings. EXTERIOR,: 2 storeys and basement; 1:14:5:14:1-bay range. A symmetrical front has matching 16-bay ranges with 3-storey end pavilions, connected by a central 3-bay ashlar entrance section with giant distyle in antis Tuscan columns to an entablature and balustrade; a rusticated wall behind has round-arched ground-floor doorway with radial fanlight and double doors and 6/6-pane sashes each side, and first-floor flat-headed 616-pane sashes. Pavilions have an ashlar first-floor band, tripartite ground-floor windows in segmental-arched recesses, first-floor 616-pane and second-floor 313-pane sashes; intervening sections have rectangular rusticated ashlar surrounds 4 bays from each end to round-arched doorways with radial fanlights and panelled doors. End 1:5:1-window return wings have end pavilions as the front, and round-arched outer and central doorways. Rear has a projecting central chapel 3 bays deep with a 5-bay gable with central 3-bay pediment, upper round-arched stained glass windows. INTERIOR,: separate houses have dogleg stairs with stick balusters and 6-pancl doors; chapel has aisles, with square panelled posts to a segmental-arched roof with round-arched aisle vaults, and half saucer dome over the S gallery with panelled posts and turned balusters, segmental arches to each first-floor bay behind, and a restored curved stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached iron railings extend along the front and end returns to the basement areas. HISTOPY: part of a fine quadrangular group with the South and Officer's blocks on an axis with the War memorials and institute (qqv). To the rear were stables for 200 horses. Shares a compositional system with Wyatt's other large Artillery barracks, at Woolwich which gives it a Palladian air of monumentality. One of the largest and most impressive examples of military architecture in the country. (General Plan: 1806-: PRO, W078 2649;

Listing NGR: TQ7631769143

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551644

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