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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 76 NE 1197
Type of record:	Listed Building
Name:	CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1856 to 1856

Grid Reference:	TQ 7637 6906
Map Sheet:	TQ76NE
Parish:	GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

SITE (Post Medieval - 1856 AD to 1856 AD)

Protected Status:	Listed Building (II*) 1375607: CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL ARCH AND GATES, BROMPTON BARRACKS

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(West Side), Brompton
3/28 Crimean War Memorial Arch
and Gates, Brompton
Barracks
GV II*
Memorial Arch. 1856 by Matthew Digby Wyatt with cast-iron gates. Tripartite archway with keyed round arches, enriched frieze, cornice, foliate brackets flanking taller central arch with a raised inscribed parapet. Pilaster strips have inset inscribed panels and central roundels, relief figures holding flags to upper spandrels, and coffered soffits. Upper entablature inscribed UBIQUE (the Royal Engineers' motto); QUO FASET ET GLORIA DUCUNT. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative bronze gates with wickets to smaller arches. Part of an axially-planned group with the Barracks, Institute and Boer War memorial arch (qqv).
Listing NGR: TQ7637169063

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

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
---	Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Related records

TQ 76 NE 56

Part of: Brompton Barracks, Gillingham (Monument)