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. 1 related planning application.
Sailors' Church And Former Sailors' Home
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-tracery-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1985
- Type
- Church, former home
- 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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