Sailor's Church

Sailors’Church and former Sailors’ Home GV II listed.

Opened 1878. Red brick with blue brick banding. Slate roof. Three storeys with central gable to lean-to roof, inscribed “Sailors’ Home”. Five bays of paired lancets on 2nd and 1st floors, with 2 light paired lancets and roundel in ashlar to ground floor. Boarded door in gabled porch to left return.

Interior: ground floor church with flat exposed timber ceiling on stone corbels, later C19 wooden seats; lectern of 1878, hexagonal pulpit, both wooden. Four bay Commandment Table with trefoil headed panels and framework of painted stone and marble. Stone stairs in south east end with wooden and iron balustrade. Dormitory upstand used for shipwreck survivors etc, with commemorative tablet to Frederick Lucas at entrance.

Created: 21  February  2021  Edited: 29  November  2023