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They comprised Brompton Barracks North, [33] Brompton Barracks South, [34] and Brompton Barracks West. [35] The Crimean War Memorial Arch was designed by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt and completed in 1856. [36] The foundation stone for the Headquarters building, also known as the Institute building, was laid by the Duke of Cambridge on 22 May 1872. [37]
The Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, also known as HMS Pembroke, was a UK naval barracks that was built between the Victorian Steam Yard and Brompton Barracks from 1897 to 1902. It was built on the site of a prison built in 1853 to house over 1,000 convicts, with the intention that they would be used to build the Dockyard extension.
New Brompton was the name originally given to Gillingham station on the Chatham Main Line. New Brompton was the original name of Gillingham F.C. Founded in 1893 it changed its name in 1913. Brompton Barracks has been home to the Royal Engineers since 1812, and now houses the Royal Engineers Museum.
On the 1909 O.S. map, it shows the name of the road from Gillingham to Chatham passing through Brompton and the Lines, named as 'Brompton Road'. [5] Between 1914 and 1918 (World War I), parts of the Inner Lines were used to site accommodation huts, supplementing pre-existing barracks defending the Dockyard. [18]
Royal School of Military Engineering (1872) and Boer War Memorial Arch (1902) at Brompton Barracks. A barracks was built in Brompton from 1804 to 1806 for the Royal Artillery gunners serving on the defensive Lines (previously they had been accommodated in the Infantry Barracks). There was space for some 500 horses and 1,000 men.
The town developed around Chatham Dockyard and several army barracks, together with 19th-century forts which provided a defensive shield for the dockyard. The Corps of Royal Engineers is still based in Chatham at Brompton Barracks. The dockyard closed in 1984, but the remaining naval buildings are an attraction for a flourishing tourist industry.
Royal Engineers Warfare Wing (Founded in 2011 and split between Brompton Barracks, Chatham and Gibraltar Barracks at Minley in Hampshire, this is the product of the amalgamation between Command Wing, where Command and Tactics were taught and Battlefield Engineering Wing, where combat engineering training was facilitated.)
The barracks were expanded considerably in the 1860s: [5] the area to the south of Cat Lane, between the barracks and St Mary's Churchyard, was purchased and levelled off. The main barracks block was extended south as far as the new boundary, and a new block was built to form the southern end of the (now elongated) parade ground.