King's College
KING'S COLLEGE, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059965
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- King's College
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S COLLEGE, SOUTH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-09-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/07431/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059965
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- King's College
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S COLLEGE, SOUTH ROAD
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:
- KING'S COLLEGE, SOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST2353523894
Details
1. SOUTH ROAD
5365
(East Side)
King's College
ST 2324 SW 7/358
II GV
Large-scale group of Gothic school buildings. Main buildings by C E Giles 1867-9.
New chapel 1898-1903 by W E Tower. Symmetrical front with central tower rising
above roof level: flanking ranges to left and right. Main block is 3 storeys.
Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roof with gables over windows
to left and right. Stringcourses and impost bands. Central tower has elaborate
crocket cornice and French chateaux style slate roof with picturesque openwork
bell-turret. Recessed pointed panel to front of tower roof. The tower has a 3-light
ashlar bay rising through both storeys over entrance. 6 windows of 3 lights each
to 2nd floor under relieving arches in gables. Ground and lst floor windows of
2 lights, with pointed dripmoulds over lst floor. All windows have cusped lights
and stone mullions and transoms. Very large entrance porch flanked by square turrets
with niches, one carved figure survives to left. Archway of 3 orders with foliage
soffits and nook shafts. Double doors and truneau. Buttressed range with plate
tracery, fleche on slate roof, elaborate niche at apex of gable, and heraldic devices
in oculi runs forward to left of main front. Adjoining triple gabled house in
Tudor style with stone mullioned windows is attached to right.
King's College, walls and gate piers form a group.
Listing NGR: ST2353523894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269883
- 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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