Guess the Place

[Dave Smith]

grandarog. I liked this but didn't understand a word!  JohnWalker. Looks like a brewery?

[John Walker]

Next one folks - In plain view and still exists.

[John Walker]

Thanks, Diapason, an interesting one.  I've driven past so many times and not really taken notice.  Thanks also to Grandarog for the further info.


It looks like the building is in good condition going by this fairly current view on Google.

[grandarog]

Well done JohnWalker.


The Chapel is Grade 2 listed.


Hospital chapel. 1882-3 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style. Polychrome brickwork with slate roof and some stone dressings. 6 bay nave with 1 bay chancel and lower apsidal ended sanctuary and small octagonal tower with brick spire and stone finial to north west. West gable has 5-light traceried windows. 5 arched windows with double lancets with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs above and easternmost window with 3 trefoil headed lancets and 3 quatrefoils all divided by buttresses. Gabled south porch. Interior: The interior contains a very fine series of stained glass depicting miracles and healing plants by Clayton and Bell. Encaustic tiled floor to chancel and sanctuary and central strip to nave. Hammer beam roof and stencilled decorations to walls. Wall painting to west end. Octagonal font with marble columns. There is a Willis organ with stencilled pipes.

[Diapason]

As far as I`m aware, the chapel is still standing and an attempt is being made to convert it into two houses.


Also that the historic `Father` Willis organ be re-located. if or when it is restored from its appalling condition.


Over to you, John W!


https://npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N14623

 

[John Walker]

The chapel at the Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate.  A lot of the original building has been converted into des-res apartments.   I wonder if the chapel has been saved.

[Beachbum]

Ursuline Convent at Westgate?

[Diapason]

Yes, an Institution  -  I think that you are nearly there!

[MartinR]

Institutional then?

[Diapason]

A chapel, yes, but not a "family" chapel.

[MartinR]

So is it a private family chapel then and not a church?

[Diapason]

Thanet area.

 I don`t think that this building is, or has been, open to the public.

My only visit (when I took the photo) was arranged.


A possible health hazard, thanks to the pigeons.

[johnfilmer]

Don't panic Dave Smith, the new bit is the 40volt battery operation, I have had a conventional 2stroke powered chainsaw for over 40years - not the same one... Very pleased with the results.

I use an extremely sturdy metal saw bench with a pivoting clamp and shield arrangement to which the saw is attached, becoming a sort of chop saw. Freehand chainsawing is avoided.
Splitting is no longer done with a maul (wide axe) after a bit flew up and whacked me on the head, a 5ton electro-pneumatic splitter was bought a few years ago with the winter fuel allowance. Highly recommended.
Meanwhile, back in church, rough area Diapason?

[Dave Smith]

Be very wary johnfilmer, a chainsaw is NOT a toy! They slice logs- & arms!- like a knife thro' butter.

[grandarog]

I will pass for while on this one Bryn, unless it hasn't been found by Sunday Evening.