Crimean War Memorial Arch And Gates, Brompton Barracks is a Grade II* listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Memorial arch.
Crimean War Memorial Arch And Gates, Brompton Barracks
- WRENN ID
- vacant-tower-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1998
- Type
- Memorial arch
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 1 December 2016.
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