The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum)
The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum), Green Hill SE18 (off Repository Road)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078987
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum)
- Statutory Address:
- The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum), Green Hill SE18 (off Repository Road)
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078987
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum)
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum), Green Hill SE18 (off Repository 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:
- The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum), Green Hill SE18 (off Repository Road)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 42650 78139
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 April 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 4278
19/W63
Green Hill SE18 (off Repositary Road)
The Rotunda (Royal Artillery Museum)
II*
Museum. Built 1814 by John Nash. Flemish band yellow brick; tented leaden roof with weathervane surmounting small wooden cupola. Polygonal plan with retangular projection to rear. One storey; 24-sided polygon, each bay defined by raised pilaster linked by raised brick cornice and eaves band. Gauged brick segmental arch over C20 double doors set in moulded wood architave with bays each having gauged brick segmental arch over base-hung 27-pane casement with reeded transom beneath fanlight. Similar articulation and windows to flat-roofed one-storey, two-bay rear wing which has further one by one bay
block to rear with hipped slate roof, brick stack and recessed panels to bays.
Interior: centrally-placed Doric column set on tall pedestal to roof which has canvas tented ceiling (a restoration of 1972 and hiding curved timber trusses) which sweeps down to peripheral aisle of 24 pairs of columns connected by segmental arches.
History: this extraordinary building, in the style of a spectacular bell tent, stood first in the grounds of Carlton House Gardens where it was one of several erected for the meeting of the allied sovereigns in 1814; in 1819 Nash supervised its removal, making it into a permanent building with the addition of a leaden roof, brick walls and central pillar, and conversion into a museum for the display of captured trophies.
Listing NGR: TQ4265078139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 200360
- 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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