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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 SW 683
Type of record:Monument
Name:Former site of St. Bartholomew's Church, London Road, Dover.

Summary

St Bartholomew's church was constructed in 1877, to serve the growing population of Tower Hamlets, in the Early English style. It was demolished in 1972. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Grid Reference:TR 31286 42014
Map Sheet:TR34SW
Parish:DOVER, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • CHURCH (CHURCH, Post Medieval to Modern - 1877 AD to 1972 AD)

Full description

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The project of building a church to serve the Tower Hamlets district which started to be developed in the late 1840s had been discussed for many years, was finally started in 1877, and on the 27th of September that year the foundation stone was laid by the Rev. Cnon Carter, Rector of Clewer. The designs were drawn by the Diocesan Surveyor, Mr. Joseph Clark, and the building was done by Mr. W. J. Adcock, of Dover. The style of this church is Early English. It is 111 feet long, 55 feet wide, consisting of a clerestoried nave of five bays, side aisles, apse-shaped chancel, an organ chamber, and a north-east chapel, the latter being built subsequently as a memorial, a heating chamber and vestry was later been added on the south of the chancel. Archbishop of Canterbury on the 22nd of January, 1879. The church was demolished when the parish of St. Bartholomew merged with the parish of St. Peter and St. Paul to become the parish of Charlton in 1972. (1-2)

This church is visible in this location on a number of historic OS maps dating to the later decades of the 19th early 20th centuries. (3-6)


<1> J. Bavington Jones, 1907, Dover; A Perambulation of the Town, Port and Fortress. (Monograph). SKE32120.

<2> 2016, Dover: Lock and Key of the Kingdom, St. Bartholomew's Church (Website). SKE32306.

<3> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

<4> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2 (Map). SKE30965.

<5> Landmark, 1907-1923, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3 (Map). SKE30966.

<6> Landmark, 1907-1923, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3 (Map). SKE30966.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Monograph: J. Bavington Jones. 1907. Dover; A Perambulation of the Town, Port and Fortress..
<2>Website: 2016. Dover: Lock and Key of the Kingdom, St. Bartholomew's Church.
<3>XYMap: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1. [Mapped feature: #1205 Church, ]
<4>Map: Landmark. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2.
<5>Map: Landmark. 1907-1923. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3.
<6>Map: Landmark. 1907-1923. Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3.