A mortuary and church hit the market for almost £1m in the final stage of a former hospital’s long-awaited overhaul.

The Grade-II listed 1882 chapel and mortuary at Margate’s Royal Seabathing Hospital went up for sale with a £900k pricetag,

The chapel has been empty for 25 years and is the last undeveloped section of hospital, founded in 1791 under the patronage of George III.

With it is the adjacent former mortuary, which already has permission to be turned into a home.

A planning application for the church’s conversion is awaiting a decision from Thanet District Council.

Estate agents Moore and Partners have said the building is the “jewel in the crown” of the wider site.

The listing states: “The built form of the surrounding local area to the application site is predominantly residential with all of the neighbouring Sea Bathing Hospital now converted to residential and a number of new build blocks of flats and houses built in the past five to ten years.

“The former chapel and mortuary are the last part of the wider site to be converted and would finish off the area's regeneration.

“The wider site offers high quality and appealing levels of accommodation that are sought after by people both inside and outside the local area.

“The former chapel conversion is seen as the 'jewel in the crown' of the wider site.”

If developed, the place of worship would become four two-bed flats and two three-bed flats.

The Royal Seabathing Hospital was founded in 1791 to treat the poor suffering from scrofula - an infection of the lymph nodes - in London

Between 1793 and 1796, the Margate hospital was built with an emphasis on bathing in the sea as a treatment.

Better living conditions, preventative medicine and more modern treatments led to the hospital ceasing to treat patients in the early 1950s.

Development first began in 2004.

The complex ranges from luxury to more affordable flats in converted buildings and new build blocks.