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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 1238 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | THE BELL MAST |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1767 to 1832
Summary from record TQ 76 NE 91 :
Bell mast c.1820
| Grid Reference: | TQ 75861 68896 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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| Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 1003367: Chatham Dockyard, bell mast W of Main Gate; Listed Building (II*) 1378626: THE BELL MAST |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 7568 NE CHATHAM MAIN GATE ROAD
Chatham Dockyard
762-1/1/73
The Bell Mast
GV II*
Bell mast. Late C18-early C19. Wrought-iron. Mast of riveted plates with a bell on top covered by a metal dome with round arches to each side on curved brackets. The base is surrounded by an octagonal swept canopy on slim octagonal iron columns.
HISTORY: the bell was used to summon the workforce to the Dockyard.
Listing NGR: TQ7586569209
Description from record TQ 76 NE 91 :
(TQ 7586 6889) SAM No. 207 [Bell Mast: scheduled]. (1) The Bell Mast C18 or early C19. 5 small octagonal columns like a garden temple round the lower portion of a tall mast surmounted by a bell with a canopy over it. Listed Grade II. (2) One of two muster bells surviving at Chatham. (3)
<1> English Heritage 1:1250 SAM location maplet (OS Card Reference). SKE41612.
<2> DOE (HHR) Borough of Chatham May 1971 (5) (OS Card Reference). SKE39907.
<3> Jonathan G Coad, 1989, The royal dockyards 1690-1850: architecture and engineering works of the sailing navy. No.1, Page Nos. 85, Plate Nos. 71 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6362.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: English Heritage 1:1250 SAM location maplet. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Borough of Chatham May 1971 (5). |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Jonathan G Coad. 1989. The royal dockyards 1690-1850: architecture and engineering works of the sailing navy. No.1. Page Nos. 85, Plate Nos. 71. |
Related records
| TQ 77 SE 220 | Part of: Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard (Monument) |
