Sailors' Church and Former Sailors' Home is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1985. Church, former home. 5 related planning applications.
Sailors' Church and Former Sailors' Home
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-tracery-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1985
- Type
- Church, former home
- Address
- Sailors' Church and Former Sailors' Home, Military Road, Ramsgate, CT11 9LG
- OS grid reference
- TR 381 645
- Coordinates
- 51.32995, 1.41689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sailors' Church and former Sailors' Home, opened in 1878, is a building located at Ramsgate Royal Harbour. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick banding and features a slate roof. The structure has three storeys, with a central gable on the lean-to roof that is inscribed "Sailors' Home." The façade includes five bays of paired lancet windows on the second and first floors, along with two-light paired lancets and a roundel in ashlar on the ground floor. There is a boarded door located in a gabled porch on the left return.
Inside, the ground floor serves as the church and has a flat exposed timber ceiling supported by stone corbels. It contains later 19th-century wooden seats, a lectern from 1878, and a hexagonal wooden pulpit. There is also a four-bay Commandment Table featuring trefoil-headed panels and a framework made of painted stone and marble. Stone stairs at the southeast end are complemented by a wooden and iron balustrade. The dormitory area was used for shipwreck survivors and includes a commemorative tablet to Frederick Lucas at the entrance.
Local climate
Sailors' Church and Former Sailors' Home 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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