I know this has been discussed a little in the Holy Trinity Church thread (
http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=3477.0) but I thought that as this is mainly about the school and hall I should start a new thread.
In 1848 the Holy Trinity Church was built in Brompton at the corner of Maxwell Road and Garden Street. It seated over 1,000 people and the cost of over £12,000, was met entirely by Canon William Conway, Vicar of St. Margaret's, Rochester,and his sister. School rooms were added by 1851 and extended in 1856 to commemorate the end of the Crimean war and the death of Captain Hammond (an officer of the Rifle Brigade and a leading light in the creation of the Army Scripture Union while he was in Chatham.) A little bell tower on the Maxwell Road side of the school that had an inscription declaring that the school extension had been built to celebrate the 'peace of the late war' (Crimea).
In 1889 a parish hall was built in memory of Canon Conway and named after him. This was build in the church gardens, between the Church and the school.
The church closed about 1950 and was demolished by 1960, the area of the church and its gardens becoming the school playing field. About 1970 Westbrook School was built on the Lines and the Junior part of Holy Trinity was moved there. Some years later the infants section was moved to Westbrook and the school closed. The buildings laid unused (apart from the Conway Hall which I believe remained in use by Brownies and the like for a few more years.) Eventually the land was sold for redevelopment and a new housing scheme incorporating the old buildings began. During this development there was a major fire in the old buildings, and for a long time the fire blackened shells lay unattended. Eventually the main buildings were rebuilt and converted into flats.
1866 plan showing the layout of the school. Conway hall was built in 1887 in the garden area between the church and the school.
Postcard from c.1910 showing the School buildings on the left
