Listed Building record TR 36 NE 2224 - FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
RAMSGATE MEETING STREET TR 3865 SW (west side) 9/257 Former Congregational Church GV II Congregational Church, now warehouse. 1838 by James Wilson. White brick with rendered details in Gothic style. Two storey entrance facade with plinth, string course and moulded parapet,gabled over whole facade, with paired flanking outer buttresses, and larger pinnacled buttresses to centre, with quatrefoil in gable, and 7 lancets on 1st floor, the 5 centre paired and raised to centre in moulded surrounds. Five lancets to ground floor, with traceried doors with traceried panelled fanlights to left and to right in multi-moulded arched surrounds. Rendered shields to centre: Founded Erected Marble sarcophagus attached to centre. AD AD Porch to right return, with fine traceried 1662 1838 panelled and glazed door, panelled traceried apron and Y-traceried fanlight in moulded surround, the redeeming feature of a somewhat weak design. The same architect designed Cavendish Baptist Chapel (item 13/82 ) in same materials and fashion, but with Neo-Norman details (Busson, Ramsgate, 68; B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 4267).
Listing NGR: TR3804065053

The first Congregational chapel was built on this site in 1743 and replaced by this chapel in 1838-9, designed by James Wilson. It is of gault brick with rendered dressings. Front wall of seven bays with two tiers of pointed-arched windows with a wide pediment over five bays. The three middle bays are bounded by octagonal buttresses. Now a warehouse. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Christopher Stell, 2002, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England (Bibliographic reference). SKE58544.