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Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1882 to 1883. Hospital chapel by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style.

Monument Types

• CHAPEL (Post Medieval - 1883 AD to 1883 AD (post))
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1883 AD to 1883 AD)

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TR 37 SW 10/344

MARGATE CANTERBURY ROAD

Chapel of Royal Sea Bathing Hospital

GV II

Hospital chapel. 1882-3 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style. Polychrome brickwork with slate roof and some stone dressings. 6 bay nave with 1 bay chancel and lower apsidal ended sanctuary and small octagonal tower with brick spire and stone finial to north west. West gable has 5-light traceried windows. 5 arched windows with double lancets with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs above and easternmost window with 3 trefoil headed lancets and 3 quatrefoils all divided by buttresses. Gabled south porch. Interior: The interior contains a very fine series of stained glass depicting miracles and healing plants by Clayton and Bell. Encaustic tiled floor to chancel and sanctuary and central strip to nave. Hammer beam roof and stencilled decorations to walls. Wall painting to west end. Octagonal font with marble columns. There is a Willis organ with stencilled pipes.

Listing NGR: TR3545770854 .






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Description from record TR 37 SW 39:
Hospital chapel built in 1883 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style.
Polychrome brickwork with slate roof and some stone dressings. 6 bay nave with
1 bay chancel and lower apsidal ended sanctuary and small octagonal tower with brick
spire and stone finial to north west. West gable has 5-light traceried windows.
5 arched windows with double lancets with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs above
and easternmost window with 3 trefoil headed lancets and 3 quatrefoils all divided
by buttresses. Gabled south porch. Interior: Interior contains a complete set of
stained glass (the Parables of Jesus Christ and Healer from St Luke's Gospel
possibly by Clayton and Bell). Encaustic tiled floor to chancel and sanctuary and
central strip to nave. Hammer beam roof and stencilled decorations to walls. Wall
painting to west end. Octagonal font with marble columns.(1)

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2006, The Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital, Canterbury Road, Margate: An Archaeological Survey of the Hospital Site and Buildings (Unpublished document). SKE17717.

<1> RCHME, 1993, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Compilation of Kent Hospitals Record Sheets, nbr 101142 (Unpublished document). SKE6841.

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