Sheerness Dockyard Church

Sheerness Dockyard Church - 'considered one of England’s first-rate forgotten monuments' - at the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, become constructed in 1826-28 as a part of the comprehensive redevelopment of the Sheerness Royal Naval Dockyard among 1813 and 1830. The predominant designer of the brand new dockyard was John Rennie, but the architect of lots of its buildings, along with the church, turned into 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 changed into gutted by means of hearth in 1881 and extensively rebuilt inside the masonry envelope, greater or less to the unique concept, in 1884-85. It become once more gutted via fireplace in 2001. It is indexed grade II and stands within Sheerness Royal Naval Dockyard and Blue Town Conservation Area. It is covered inside the English Heritage Register of Heritage at Risk. They have been operating when you consider that 2011 with Save Britain's Heritage, and considering 2015, Sheerness Dockyard Preservation Trust. They prepared a take a look at, to discover the feasibility of more than a few capacity new makes use of, as alternatives to the scheme for residential conversion for which making plans and indexed building consent have been granted on 25 February 2008.