GRAVESEND

Fourth Portal @ St Andrews Art Centre, Gravesend, DA12 2B

Our beautiful Fourth Portal, nestled by the river Thames in Gravesend, home to Pocahontas, introduces the latest innovations using old technologies in a chilled out former seafarers chapel.

Perry and Freddie sharing time playing retro games while mum pursued the books and old tech.

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King comes from a family of professional musicians and loved the pipe organ.

Marjorie Wilson with the tapestry she helped embroider as part of the Embroiderers Guild.

Photo captures the Fourth Portal really becoming a place where the generations just begin to talk.

Tia, Ellise, Olivia, Chloe, Nula, Jorja and Dylan are a growing band of teenagers returning to the Fourth Portal.

Local teenagers partaking in two of the most important aspects of the new age, gaming and music, where many of the future job lay.

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The Head of Tourism for the town, Virginia brought some French visitors, Sylvain, René, Laurence and Amélia to the Fourth Portal and found the whole concept 'Magnifique!!'

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Fourth Portal @ St Andrews Art Centre is a relaxed place to meet, socialise, work, learn, enjoy performances, art and workshops surrounded by an eclectic array of furnishings, books and technology under stunning stained glass windows.

The emerging Fourth Portal as it settles into the St Andrews Art Centre, Gravesend

The slow emerging Mind Space at St Andrews Art Centre, Gravesend.

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View from grass bank looking at St Andrews Art Centre

First view of St Andrews Art Centre approaching from Gravesend town centre.

St Andrews Art Centre main entrance from Royal Pier road.

St Andrews Art Centre ceiling represents the hull of a ship.

St Andrews Art Centre working pipe organ keyboard.

A mosaic representing St. Andrew 'who became associated with protection at sea and is now considered a patron saint of sailors'.

St Andrews Gravesend Victorian Italian tiles

Beach and St Andrews Art Centre looking towards Essex across the Thames.

Stain glass representing St. Andrew and St. Peter at St Andrews Art Centre.

Stain glass representing the saints and Virgin Mary at St Andrews Art Centre

Stain glass of Christ's crucifixion over the exit of St Andrews Art Centre.

Before opening the Fourth Portal at St Andrews Art Centre.

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Statue of WWII RAF squadron leader Mahinder Singh Pujji plinth situated on grass outside St Andrews Art Centre.

Andrews Art Centre chapel and bell tower next to the Mission House, which is now offices.

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St Andrews Art Centre is a challenging site for such an intervention due to the building's age, listed status and location.

opening hours

We will have two artists in residence, a Mind Space and a stage.

There is a rich history with plaques to the 1845 doomed John Franklin northwest passage expedition and wind scale creator Sir Francis Beaufort.

Charles Dickens made a significant contribution to the cost of constructing the building.

OPENING TIMES

BUILDING

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ARTISTS

EVENTS

Coming Soon

MIND ROOM

YARMOUTH

TRANSFORMATION

The transformation of St Andrews Art Centre in Gravesend, within one week, from an almost empty chapel to a relaxed social gathering space attracting more than 400 people without any advertising.

FOURTH PORTAL

GATEWAY TO THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

GRAVESEND

TRANSFORMATION