Guess the Place

[MartinR]

If that's the one to the south of the village it's dedication is to "St Cosmas & St Damian's Church".  Location information:

• Nat Grid:                    TR0114349196
• Nearest Post Code:   TN25 4DB
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°12'24"N,000°52'41"E or 51.20655,0.87812

Grade II* listed, listing at https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1185088?section=official-list-entry

[Local Hiker]

... pronounced Chollock, apparently.

[Local Hiker]

Sorry, been out of sorts, yes, Challock

[johnfilmer]

Is it the isolated church near Challock?

[John Walker]

Thanks for taking the mantle Local Hiker.   

I'll pass on this one as I know it - wouldn't be a guess.

[Local Hiker]

I will post to move things on then, thank you.

I visited here back in June. Remember those warm long sunny days?

Unfortunately, I did not realise that it would be locked and that you had to collect the key from a local retailer, so I did not see inside that day.

[MartinR]

John located it, but didn't know what it was, you provided the details, hence "Spot on Local Hiker".  Do you have anything ready?

[Local Hiker]

John Walker guessed it; I was only providing information after his correct guess. That is why I have not continued the game, I did not realise I was seen as the winner of the last one. John should have it.

[MartinR]

Gentle nudge to Local Hiker?

[Jackie Paper]

Agree with you both. Difficult to see it being reused. Ironically, for an 1840s design it's so amazingly advanced that it doesn't look very remarkable to modern eyes.
I could imagine it enclosed by, or enclosing, some new glass or wood eco-architecture corporate HQ or arts centre. If it were in Copenhagen or Seattle anyway, there's no budget or appetite for that sort of thing here.     

[MartinR]

Spot on Local Hiker.

The official listing¹ describes the move in 1880 but seems to imply that it was used as a machine shop on its present site.  Remember that the whole of the basins and St. Mary's Island were within the Dockyard until it closed.  The listing date is 1984 which is when the Dockyard closed.  It forms a pair with the Dockside Outlet, which is housed in the former boilershop, itself a listed building.²  Indeed, the official listings for both cross-reference to the other.  Mentioning the Outlet, next time you are in it look how all the modern structure is clamped to the original, never bolted or welded.

¹https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1267822?section=official-list-entry
²https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1267821?section=official-list-entry

[John Walker]

It is interesting John.  You've got the right structure, but your second question is a leading one!

It seems to have been like that for quite a few years.  I've noticed it when I visited the dockyard over the years but I wasn't sure if was the structure in your photo.

A better location would have been within Chatham Historic Dockyard perhaps?

[Local Hiker]

Number 8 Machine Shop was originally a dry dock cover in Woolwich Dockyard and was moved to Chatham. Its current location is somewhere to preserve it, not its original location at Chatham. It is one of those historic artefacts that attracts lots of big ideas and speculation on what to do with it, but little genuine interest or funding.

[John Walker]

It is interesting John.  You've got the right structure, but your second question is a leading one!

It seems to have been like that for quite a few years.  I've noticed it when I visited the dockyard over the years but I wasn't sure if was the structure in your photo.

[Stewie]

Think there were plans to turn it into a 'drive in' cinema a few years ago! The steel work has been touched up with anti rust paint in the last couple of weeks.