St Johns Hall
ST JOHNS HALL, ST JOHNS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135152
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- St Johns Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOHNS HALL, ST JOHNS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135152
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- St Johns Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JOHNS HALL, ST JOHNS 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:
- ST JOHNS HALL, ST JOHNS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85261 64652
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564NW ST JOHN'S STREET 639-1/3/618 (East side) St John's Hall
GV II
St John's Infant School, now used as a hall for St John's Church (qv). 1842, with later extensions. By William Ranger (1800-1863). In white brick with stone dressings; slate roofs with ornate red ridge tiles. EXTERIOR: single storey, with the interior open to the roof; designed in a version of Victorian Early English style; irregular form. All the original windows are narrow, single-light and pointed-headed with arched stone hood-moulds, except on the west gable, where a 3-light window has a heavy version of plate tracery, with a 4-centred hood-mould over and a circular window in the same style in the apex of the gable. On the left, an entrance within an ornate gabled porch. A rear range, facing west, has flat pilasters between the windows and a gabled porch with an ornate stone doorway, 3 windows above it and one at each side at a lower level. On the south side are 2 similar, but not identical gables, that on the south west part of a later range which infills the angle between the original south and west ranges. This has 3 lancet-type windows in the gable end and a circular window with radiating glazing-bars in the apex; along the west side are paired lancets and a brick dentil cornice. INTERIOR: contains its original pointed doors and doorways; open timber roofs survive in part of the building.
Listing NGR: TL8526164652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467340
- 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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