Douglas Railway Station is a somewhat rambling structure (as is required by its function) and is constructed of red brick with pitched slate roofs and a major glass roofed 'lean-to' entrance corridor. The profile of the brickwork has been adapted to approximate to the platform roofing requirements in a decorative fashion. Similarly the accommodation areas of the station have received some definition with brick pilasters and string courses of geometrical rather than structural significance. Because the building is sited in a hollow, there is an imposing gateway and clock in a detached structure located to be visible along Athol Street. This structure with its twin cupolas and central arch is well resolved but only related to the main station by a rather small scale brick and iron paling fence to the gate enclosing the station yard.
515 names listed in alphabetical order. Some names mention regiment and / or rank; First World War. Printed list of 5 columns, each framed with a wooden border and mounted behind glass. Roll of Honour was originally displayed in Douglas Town Library, however the library has since relocated to Victoria Street, Douglas and the roll of honour has now been mounted on the wall in the entrance to Douglas Town Hall, at the foot of the stairs on the right hand side.
No names listed; all twentieth century wars. Framed certificate, decorated with emblems from various Manx organisations and public services and signed with the common seal of the Borough. Red and black script.
Medieval chapel and burial ground.
The Manx Archaeological Survey (1918) states that a chapel and burial ground once stood at this location. The Survey notes that the chapel was standing in the 16th century as it was marked on Durham's map of 1595. A landscape drawing by Daniel King, completed in the 1650s, shows a chapel in the correct location, together with the annotation 'The Chappell'. The site of the 'ruins and ground whereon the Old Chapel did stand' was sold by the Church in 1708 when the new chapel (St Matthew's Church at SC 38217531, itself demolished in 1898) was built. A 19th century plan of Douglas (Taggart, 1834) marks a St Martin's Lane in the area. The Survey further notes that lintel graves were found close to the site of the cattle market towards the very end of the 19th century.
These observations tend to place the site in the vicinity of the former Douglas Corporation electricity works, and the presence of lintel graves suggests burial activity dating to the medieval period.
Medieval chapel.
The Manx Archaeological Survey (1918) states that a chapel and burial ground once stood at this location. The Survey notes that the chapel was standing in the 16th century as it was marked on Durham's map of 1595. A landscape drawing by Daniel King, completed in the 1650s, shows a chapel in the correct location, together with the annotation 'The Chappell'. The site of the 'ruins and ground whereon the Old Chapel did stand' was sold by the Church in 1708 when the new chapel (St Matthew's Church at SC 38217531, itself demolished in 1898) was built. A 19th century plan of Douglas (Taggart, 1834) marks a St Martin's Lane in the area.
These observations tend to place the site in the vicinity of the former Douglas Corporation electricity works.
