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Army Chaplain's Department, Mġarr
This is the only known surviving British Army Chaplain's Department in Malta and was built in the early 20th century.
This house was the residence of Fr Edgar Salomone, parish priest of Mġarr who was one of the first Maltese Chaplains (Captain) of World War II and who served and saw action in various theatres of the war.
The Army Chaplain's Department in Dun Edgar Street is a onestorey building with a central arched doorway, flanked by square-headed windows with moulded surrounds.
On each corner are rusticated quoins, while the central entrance has rusticated voussoirs. At the centre of the roof parapet wall above the door is a heraldic shield or coat of arms. At the top of the windows in the centre there is a badge. The cornice has a dentil running along its front. Two stone urns stand at each corner of the roof parapet wall.
Mepa scheduled the Army Chaplains Department in Mġarr as a Grade 2 national monument as per Government Notice no. 628/08 in the Government Gazette dated July 12, 2008.