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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 94 NE 1
Type of record:Building
Name:Parish Hall, Station Road, Charing

Summary

Memorial Porch is a memorial hall built in 1897, constructed of red brick with a timbered gable and half-timbered porch in a polite domestic revival style. Charing Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital (40 beds) run by Kent VAD/182 - Parish Hall (October 1914 - December 1918)


Grid Reference:TQ 9517 4925
Map Sheet:TQ94NE
Parish:CHARING, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • MEMORIAL HALL (Post Medieval to Unknown - 1897 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD)

Full description

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Memorial Porch is a memorial hall built in 1897, constructed of red brick with a timbered gable and half-timbered porch in a polite domestic revival style. (2)

Charing Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital (40 beds) run by Kent/182 - Parish Hall (October 1914 - December 1918). The Hall is curently in use. The porch was dedicated as the War Memorial.


<1> Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.

<2> AECOM, 2017, Charing Heritage and Character Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE55359.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War.
<2>Unpublished document: AECOM. 2017. Charing Heritage and Character Assessment.