The Prebendal School
THE PREBENDAL SCHOOL, 52, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1026581
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Prebendal School
- Statutory Address:
- THE PREBENDAL SCHOOL, 52, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1026581
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Prebendal School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PREBENDAL SCHOOL, 52, WEST STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PREBENDAL SCHOOL, 52, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chichester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 85836 04840
Details
WEST STREET 1. 972 (South Side) No 52 (The Prebendal School) SU 8504 NE 3/147 II GV 2. With No 53 (Prebendal School House). Gothic building renovated in 1830 (had been re-founded in 1497). Tall narrow building. Some medieval features remain. Northern front of dressed flints with galletted flint, and stone quoins and dressings. 4 storeys (including cellar or undercroft). Parapet. Pointed gable rising from parapet. Stringcourse above ground floor. 1 window bay. Windows with lattice tracery and pointed panes set in square headed stone arches; 2 lights with 1 tier each to attic storey window; 3 lights with 2 tiers each to 1st floor window. Double wooden boarded door set in 4 centred arch with stone architrave. Round arched opening to cellar. 2 original windows with corbels (1 blocked) in dormitory and passageway at 2nd storey level; panelling in 1st floor. Turret stair-well behind to south-west. Semi-circular arched opening to cellar in north front; this part of cellar now blocked up.
Nos 52 to 56 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SU8585004839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 300297
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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