Sheerness Dockyard Church
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Sheerness Dockyard Church
Image: © Richard Rogerson Taken: 17 Sep 2019
The church was built in 1826-8 as part of the comprehensive redevelopment of the Sheerness Royal Naval Dockyard between 1813 and 1830. The architect of many of its buildings, including the church, was George Ledwell Taylor, Surveyor of Buildings to the Navy from 1824. The church is an austere neo-classical design with a tetrastyle Ionic portico. It was gutted by fire in 1881 and substantially rebuilt within the masonry envelope, more or less to the original concept, in 1884-5. It was again gutted by fire in 2001. It is listed grade II*. The Sheerness Dockyard Preservation Trust is working to repair and transform the Church.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.442974
Longitude
0.753611