Garrison Church
GARRISON CHURCH, MILITARY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123564
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Garrison Church
- Statutory Address:
- GARRISON CHURCH, MILITARY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123564
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Garrison Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARRISON CHURCH, MILITARY 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:
- GARRISON CHURCH, MILITARY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00395 24387
Details
TM 0024 COLCHESTER MILITARY ROAD
(North West side)
584/14/408 Colchester Garrison
02.12.71 Garrison Church
II*
Garrison church. 1856. Timber frame with weatherboard. Rectangular aisled plan with vestries either side of East end.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 8-bay range. The frame is visible externally separating bays with triple round-arched windows with horizontal glazing bars, beneath deep eaves; the front gable has outer windows with taller central light, and central 2-1ight round-arched windows with two transoms, each above a round-arched doorway with double doors. Beneath the apex is a clock, with a small louvred bellcote on top. Plain gabled vestries to the East end.
INTERIOR: square timber nave posts and cast-iron brackets support iron trusses. HlSTORY: the only surviving part of the temporary hut camp established for the Crimean War. Comparable with the much later corrugated iron-clad timber church at Bisley, Hants and two contemporary examples at Aldershot, now demolished. Timber huts were widely used for barracks and hospitals in the early nineteenth century, but are now very rare. Graded for its considerable historic interest as the only barracks church of its type in the country.
(Dietz P: Garrison: Ten Military Towns: London: 1986-: 14).
Listing NGR: TM0039524387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 117108
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dietz, P, Garrison Ten Military Towns, (1986), 14
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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