King's Gate in Grounds of Port Regis School is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. Archway.
King's Gate in Grounds of Port Regis School
- WRENN ID
- burning-corner-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Archway
- Address
- King's Gate in Grounds of Port Regis School, Convent Road, Broadstairs and St. Peters
- OS grid reference
- TR 395 703
- Coordinates
- 51.38121, 1.44066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's Gate is an archway located in the grounds of Port Regis School in Broadstairs. It was built by Lord Holland to commemorate the landing of King Charles II and the Duke of York in 1683. Before this, the site was known as St Bartholomew's Gate. Lady Holland was the great-granddaughter of Charles II. The original gateway was demolished by a gale in 1819 but was later re-erected in the grounds of the Convent.
The arch features a pointed design made of rough flints and includes a Latin inscription indicating the name change from Bartholomew's Gate to King's Gate in honor of the royal landing on June 30, 1683. On the left side of the arch is a stone eagle, while the right side displays a shield. The seaward side has an inscription in metal using Saxon characters that reads "God bless Bath'lem's Gate," along with two stone plaques, each topped with a crown. The left plaque has a "Y," and the right one features two intertwined "Cs," which are thought to represent the Duke of York, King Charles II, and Carolina, Lady Holland. Flint walls flank either side of the archway. All listed buildings within the grounds of Port Regis School are recognized as a group.
Local climate
King's Gate in Grounds of Port Regis School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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