The Quadrangular Store, built 1825-9 as the centrepiece of the rebuilt Sheerness Dockyard, was gargantuan (Pevsner) and magnificent. Built to last forever, it was cynically demolished by the Medway Ports Authority in 1979.
This scholarly book tells the story of the Quadrangular Store and travels further afield to recount the rebuilding of the entire dockyard in the early 19th century by a great man - John Rennie, his sons, Edward Holl and George Ledwell Taylor.
Further chapters describe the Sheerness Dockyard model of the 1820s - one of the world’s great architectural models, the surviving Boat Store - a building of international importance, Naval Storehouses across all the Royal Dockyards, and the remarkable five North Quay Stacks (1802-5) at the London Docks, demolished the same year as the Quadrangular Store.
Contributors include - Dan Cruickshank Architectural Historian, Jonathan Coad Dockyard Historian, Julian Harrap CBE Architect, Dr Matthew Wells University of Manchester, Andrew Byrne Architectural Historian and Richard Holme and Celia Clark Naval Dockyards Society.
Hardback
250 plus pages
210x280mm
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Following many years of planning, development and successful fundraising, it is with excitement that construction for the project will officially start on 2nd November 2020.
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