Guess the Place

[KeithG]

They were Military living quarters.


Not Brompton Barracks / Royal Engineers.

[shoot999]

Part of the Brompton Barracks/Royal Engineers complex?

[CAT]

They look kind of military family living quarters?

[KeithG]

Thanks for that CAT....


Who remembers what and where this was?

[CAT]

KeithG has this one. It is indeed a detail of a portion of the decorative iron work on the south door of Staplehurst church. Supposedly representing the Norse tale of Raknorocok, the Norse doomsday, the iron work is supposedly earlier than the timber door. This is implied by the semi-circular decoration typical of Romanesque architecture, whilst the door timber is shaped to a two pointed arched opening of the early English period.


Over to you KiethG

[John Walker]

One of the many village churches surrounding Canterbury?

[shoot999]

Many Thanks KeithG, though I feel I may have snatched it from others who were very close also?

Here is my next which is a detail of some very important Kentish ironwork.

But where?

That's one of the reasons I enjoy GTP. Numerous contributors taking us closer and closer to the answer with their questions and suggestions. Team work! 


Not forgetting that the winners 'prize' is to have to sit out the next round, whilst the rest of us carry on playing. 

[Diapason]

St. Martin`s, Canterbury?

[KeithG]

Trying to do some finding but the South Door of Staplehurst Church keeps appearing?

[MartinR]

(OT) The Rochester door is the oldest Norman door in England, and one of the oldest in Europe.  Visible only by appointment.

[CAT]

I can see your thinking also John Walker, but incorrect. It is however, on an ecclesiastical building, but nothing as grand as a cathedral, or even a monastery/priory.

[John Walker]

Canterbury Cathedral - Door from the precincts?

[CAT]

It's not that one MartinR, but it could be of a similar age (though I don't know the age of the Rochester door, or ironwork)

[MartinR]

That looks suspiciously like the ancient door to the turret stairs in the north quire transept of Rochester Cathedral.

[CAT]

Many Thanks KeithG, though I feel I may have snatched it from others who were very close also?

Here is my next which is a detail of some very important Kentish ironwork.

But where?