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Queen's Stairs at Chatham Dockyard is a seventeenth-century landing structure built within the historic naval dockyard on the River Medway in Kent. The stairs provided access from the water to the dockyard, serving the operational and logistical requirements of one of England's principal naval establishments during the Stuart period and beyond. Constructed of brick and stone, the structure reflects the practical engineering demands of dockyard infrastructure of its era. The stairs remain a testament to the scale and importance of Chatham Dockyard's development as a centre of naval power and shipbuilding activity.
Chatham Dockyard, Queen's Stairs is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003376. View the official record →
Queen's Stairs at Chatham Dockyard is a seventeenth-century landing structure built within the historic naval dockyard on the River Medway in Kent. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003376.
Chatham Dockyard, Queen's Stairs is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003376.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Fort Luton (3.1 km), Fort Borstal (3.6 km), Fort Horstead (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Chatham Dockyard, Queen's Stairs's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Chatham Dockyard, Queen's Stairs stands on Cenozoic sedimentary rocks, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sedimentary rocks; London Basin.