French Prisoners

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Reference WMO/83562

Address:

St George's Centre

Pembroke Road

Chatham

ME4 4UH

England

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Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other monument
Materials:
  • Metal Iron
  • Stone Limestone
  • Stone Marble
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
About the memorial: French Armed Forces: Historic England entry - War memorial. 1869. Polychromatic limestone and red sandstone ashlar, granite and marble. Gothic Revival style. Stepped base to square plinth with inscribed sides and weathered top, aedicule above has polychrome round arch with pointed arched hood, within a steep gable with iron finials on foliate capitals and marble columns, and spirelet with limestone and granite bands to a finial. Inside is a figure of a Napoleonic sailor. HISTORY: commemorates French prisoners from the Napoleonic wars who died in prison hulks in Britain, especially those buried on St Mary's Island, part of the former Dockyard.
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Grade II (England)

1267808

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