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St Marys Chapel
Hob Uid: 468824
Location : Kent Thanet Broadstairs and St. Peters
Grid Ref : TR3981167900
Summary : St Mary's Chapel is a former Congregational chapel built in the early 19th century, with later 19th century alterations and extensions. It was built on or adjoining the site of a medieval chantry chapel of which it incorporates re-sited elements. Since the 1950s it has been used as a shop. The medieval chantry chapel was sited alongside a shrine to Our Lady of Bradstow, which was destroyed by a tidal wave a few years after the storm of 1500. Following the Reformation the chapel became the private property of the Culmer family. In 1691 the chapel was refitted as a public place of worship once again. In 1825-28 the chapel was repaired and mostly rebuilt by local patron Mary Goodwin. The chapel contains an early 17th century five-light stone mullioned and transomed window and a stone medieval arch to the top of an entrance immediately to the west. It has an L-shaped plan and is constructed of coursed flint, knapped on the principal sides, with red or stock brick dressings. It has a hipped tiled roof. During the Second World War an air raid shelter was built in the cellar underneath the chapel.
More information : [TR 39806766] St Mary's Chapel (NR) (1) St. Mary's Chapel, Albion Street, Broadstairs, was built in 1601. It is now the parish room of Holy Trinity Church. (2) St. Mary's Chapel is of knapped flint with 19th c. brick dressings; the only original features now visible are the doorway and mullioned and transomed window in the south side. A plaque states that it stands on the site of the shrine of our Lady of Bradstow. Until recently it was the parish room of Holy Trinity Church but is now in private hands and used as a store-room. GP AO/63/121/3. (3) No 4 Albion Street (Old St Mary's Chapel) Broadstairs. Grade II. St Mary's Chapel, dated 1601 when it was adapted for Protestant worship, was built on the site of the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow. (For full description see list). (4) Old St Mary's Hall in Albion Street is dated 1601, the year it was equipped for 'Protestant', ie Puritan, worship. It incorporates the flint end wall of a medieval chapel. (5) TR 398678. Ruins and undercroft of medieval chapel incorporated in Georgian secular building, now in use as a bookshop. The chapel dedicated to Virgin Mary as our Lady of Bradstow (Broadstairs) was venerated by sailors. (6) See inventory. (7) Listed as St Mary's Chapel, 44 Albion Street (List Entry No. 1239199). For the designation record of this site please see The National Heritage List for England. (8-9)

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Source details : OS 1/1250 1955
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Source details : M.H.L.G. (906/11/A, May 1948). 1
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Source details : F1 CFW 03-OCT-63
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Source details : DOE (HHR) Dist. of Thanet. Broadstairs & St Peters Area 1974, 4
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Source details : B.O.E. North East and East Kent 1983, 162 (J. Newman)
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Source details : Isle of Thanet Arch. Unit, Sites and Mons. Archive 1988, Record No 294
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Source details : Thanet, 20-SEP-1974 (Amended on 14-MAR-2013]
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : English Heritage, 2013. The National Heritage List for England <> [Accessed on 14-MAR-2013]
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1539
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Chantry Chapel, Shrine
Evidence : Architectural Component, Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Repaired 1691
Monument End Date : 1691
Monument Start Date : 1691
Monument Type : Presbyterian Chapel
Evidence : Extant Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Repaired 1825-8
Monument End Date : 1828
Monument Start Date : 1825
Monument Type : Congregational Chapel
Evidence : Extant Building

Monument Period Name : Early 20th Century
Display Date : From 1926
Monument End Date : 1926
Monument Start Date : 1926
Monument Type : Parish Hall
Evidence : Extant Building

Monument Period Name : Mid 20th Century
Display Date : 1950S
Monument End Date : 1959
Monument Start Date : 1950
Monument Type : Shop
Evidence : Extant Building

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External Cross Reference Source : Listed Building List Entry Legacy Uid
External Cross Reference Number : 415857
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External Cross Reference Source : Unified Designation System UID
External Cross Reference Number : 1239199
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TR 36 NE 10
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1963-10-03
End Date : 1963-10-03

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St Marys Chapel