Prestigious Award for Two University of Westminster Architecture students - News and events. RIBA President’s Medals Student Award wins confirm School of Architecture’s world leading status Two architecture students from the University of Westminster’s Graduate Diploma in Architecture course, Jonathan Schofield and Clare Richards, have won two out of three prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President’s Medals Student Awards 2010 (in association with Atkins). These latest awards confirm the University of Westminster faculty as one of the leading global architecture schools. The RIBA Dissertation Medal has been won by the School five times in succession during the last six years, and this is the fourth time students from the Graduate Diploma in Architecture have won the RIBA Silver Medal in the same time period.
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Garrison Point Fort - Garrison Point Fort at Sheerness was built as a result of the Royal Commision of 1860,which reviewed national defences of Britain in case of an attack by France. In 1869 there was a second Commison to report on the progress of defence work carried out by the first Commision. By 1872 Garrison Point Fort had been constructed on the site of the former Half Moon Battery and Cavalier Battery. The Fort was built to defend the entrance of the River Medway and the Royal Dockyards of Sheerness and Chatham. The Fort is granit faced,Semi Circular with 2 tiers of Casemates and what would have been Officers Quarters at the rear. The magazines and connecting passages are underground reached by steps from the parade ground. The Fort was armed with 36, 9" and 10" Riffled Muzzle Loaders guns,protected behind iron sheilds in the Casemates.
One end of the Boom across the River Medway was anchored at Garrison Point,the other end being at the Grain Tower Battery. Thames Steel. Spit of Grain Tower. Elmley School House. Elmley School House can be found at the end of a strip of overgrown land on the Isle of Elmley. The strip of land is all that remains of the original Elmley Village surrounded by a clear landscape of protected marshes. The school house was constructed in 1885 by the University of Oxford and was to hold up to 86 children however in 1908 it had only 6 pupils. Due to the villages decline the school house was eventually deserted and now remains as a derelict and dangerous building.
Most of the roof is missing leaving only the beams that are slowly rotting and collapsing and holes have appeared in the walls. All of the windows and doors are now missing and the nearby outhouse is in the same dangerous state. The school house was used by the children of the 30 or so houses within the village until the 1920’s when the school was closed. Adjacent to this building is the site of St James Church that was rebuilt in 1853 with the register dating from the earlier building which was built in 1828.
Harty Bunker. At the bottom of Harty Ferry Road there is a small bunker, it is just past Harty Ferry Inn on the right as you look towards the river. The shelter has two rooms in the bunker, a small cubical for the toilet and the main room. It has a blast protected entrance and an escape shaft in the far corner with a ladder to the roof. Details of the bunker's use are not available. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 © Sheppey Website 2007 All rights reserved. Capel Farm Anti Aircraft Battery. A 3.7” gun battery off Harty Ferry Road, it was built post WWII and was not completed.
It comprises of four gun emplacements, an engine house, a nissan hut and the electronic command post. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7 Photo 8 Photo 9 Photo 10 Photo 11 Photo 12 © Sheppey Website 2007 All rights reserved. The Workhouse in Sheppey, Kent. [Up to 1834] [After 1834] [Staff] [Inmates] [Records] [Bibliography] [Links] Up to 1834 Minster had poorhouse in operation as early as 1630 (Judge, 1987). It was part of the Manor of Minster, owned by Sir John Haywood, which was left to be administered as a charity after his death. The poorhouse provided shelter for the old and homeless until any of those that were able could find work or accommodation.
A parliamentary report of 1777 recorded parish workhouses in operation at Minster with accommodation for up to 26 inmates, and at East Church (40 inmates). In 1784, a new workhouse was erected at Minster but burnt down five years later and was rebuilt. After 1834 Sheppey Poor Law Union officially came into existence on 25th March 1835. County of Kent: Eastchurch (2), Isle of Elmley, Isle of Harty, Leysdown, Minster in Sheppey (6), Queenborough (2), Warden.Later Addition: Sheerness (from 1894). The new Sheppey Union adopted the existing Minster workhouse.
Sheppey workhouse site, 1908. Staff. Minster Workhouse. It is believed that Minster had a poorhouse in operation as early as 1630 in the manor of Minster, the poorhouse provided shelter for the homeless and elderly until anyone staying there could find work or accommodation. In 1636 it was reported that Sir John Haywood donated land and money in a charitable trust, for a poorhouse to be built at Minster, the poorhouse was to run after Sir John Haywood’s death as a charity.
A parliamentary report of 1777 reported workhouses in operation in Minster, with accommodation for 26 inmates. It also reported accommodation for 40 people at a workhouse in Eastchurch. A new workhouse was built at Minster in 1784 but in 1789 the thatch roof caught fire and the building collapsed, another workhouse was built on the same site in 1815. Following the Poor Law Act, in 1834 a board of guardians was enlisted to run a union of parish workhouses, it was known as The Union and situated in Union Road in Minster. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7 Photo 8. Garrison Point Fort. Garrison Point Fort was completed by 1872 on the site of the previous Half Moon and Cavalier Battery. It was built to protect the entrance to the River Medway and to protect the Isle of Grain. It is a granite faced semi-circular fort with the parade ground in the centre and officers quarters to the rear. It has 3 levels, the bottom being underground magazines and the two upper levels being gun casemates.
The barrack rooms were found behind the guns in the casemates. The fort was built to hold 36 guns, and was fitted with either 9” or 12” RMLs (rifle muzzle loaders). In 1884 a Brennon Torpedo Station was introduced to the fort, this remained until 1906. There was a boom chain from the fort to Grain Tower that held a net in place. You enter the fort through an archway built into the officer’s accommodation, this takes you through onto the parade ground.
On the east side of the parade ground you will find a set of steps leading down to the magazines underneath the fort. Photo 1 Photo 2. 3 towers info. The Indented Lines were built in 1669 by Sir Bernard De Gomme. Originally called Gunners Battery, Dial Line and Long Line but changed to the Indented Lines after 1838. They were linked to the Sheerness Lines from 1827, and it was all known as Sheerness lines. They stretched from Ness Point, where Garrison Point Fort stands, down to the moat outside where Tesco now stands and all around the current steel mill. It would have had a brick revetment wall along the length of it with gun emplacements within. It enclosed the dockyard and Blue Town. Today most of the fortifications from Bridge Road and around the steel mill have been demolished, but there is a lot remaining from Garrison Point Fort along to the moat by Tesco. The fortifications range from Napoleonic all the way through to WWII.
Indented line No.1 is to the east of Garrison Point Fort. Indented line No.2 has mostly been damaged by new buildings. Centre Bastion also known as Martello Battery. Main picture supplied by Roger Betts. Building 86. Built around 1889, possibly by re-using earlier structures, and added to in 1900, this building was added to the head of dry docks 4 and 5. The purpose of this building is unknown but it is believed that during construction the shipwrights’ shed, offices and supplying kilns were incorporated into the building. The building is constructed of yellow brick with iron trunking with three sections.
The southern section is off one storey with a slate covered roof and has wooden framed windows. The northern section is also of one storey with a slate covered roof with an additional louvre and similar two tier windows like the southern section. To the north of this section is a brick square chimney suggesting the building used steam power. The numerous differences in the construction of each side suggests they were constructed at different times and indicating that previous building may have been incorporated in the new building. Photo 1 © Sheppey Website 2007 All rights reserved. Building 26/86 info. Building 84. Built in 1828 of brick and iron this building was designed by William Miller for the sole purpose of housing saw-pits. The land it stands on was originally part of the garrisons’ land however they passed the land over to the dockyard.
The one storey building has been shortened sometime in the late 20th century, having been forty feet in length with the 20 saw-pits having been filled in. An Ordnance Survey map from 1864 shows the north end of the building in use as a fire engine house and the south end as a converters mould store with the remaining area still as saw-pits. The building was later used as an engineers store but is now empty. © Sheppey Website 2007 All rights reserved. Building 26. Planned as early as 1813 during the reconstruction plans of the dockyard, construction of the working Mast and Boat House was in an advanced state in 1821.
The superstructure was designed by the navy’s architect, Edward Holl, however it was not completed until after his death. His successor G.L.Taylor, a Civil Architect, completed the designs and oversaw the work. The rest of the building design and construction was overseen by John Rennie but it was not completed until after his death in 1830. The reason for the building’s construction was that when Rennie and his partner Joseph Widbey visited the dockyard in 1808 they found ‘The carpenters’ saw-pits, treenail and wedge stores, joiners’ shop, and mast houses are all most inconveniently situated’ and that ‘the mast-pond is situated in the open shore, surrounded by a wooden fence, and consequently exposed to the ravages of the worm, and also to damage by the high tides and storms’
. © Sheppey Website 2007 All rights reserved. Captain Superintendent's House. As Sheerness Dockyard grew in size and importance difficulties in undertaking day to day work became difficult due to the badly laid out buildings, to remedy this it was decided that the dockyard was to be redesigned and John Rennie was called in to survey the dockyard and present a new design giving the workers more space. The first piles were driven into the ground on 23rd December 1813 and 10 years later the dockyard was finally re-opened by the Duke of Clarence. One building that was constructed as a result of this survey was the captain-Superintendents House, also known as Dockyard House. The building of this house, Dockyard Terrace and the Admiral’s House, in 1827, were contracted out to Joliffe and Banks, Sir Edward Banks’ company.
It is thought that George Ledwell-Taylor, architect to the Navy Board was involved in the design of this building. The house is of two storeys with attic and basement and constructed out of yellow bricks. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6. Sheerness Water Tower. The water tower is actually two buildings with the second building at the front being added at the later date.
The first building was probably built between 1840 and 1850, the second was built in 1891. There are three wells within the building which were tested in the 1940’s. Here are the findings: 1. Name of pumping station Trinity Road, Sheerness2. Water derived from (geological formation) London Tertiaries and Chalk 3.
There is a 14-inch borehole at the bottom of No. 1 well, to a total depth of 384 feet from the surface. The section of No.2 well and borehole is as follows: After the pumping station was built there was a lot of criticism due to it not being able to pump enough water for the population of Sheerness. In April 1988 the building was removed from the Department of the Environments List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, it had been a Grade II listed Building.
A housing application was lodged in 2002 but due to design issues it was withdrawn. Photo 1.