Foxs Gymnasium
FOXS GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1156234
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Foxs Gymnasium
- Statutory Address:
- FOXS GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1156234
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Foxs Gymnasium
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOXS GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
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:
- FOXS GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Rushmoor (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86920 52361
Details
ALDERSHOT
SU 85 SE
QUEEN'S AVENUE
(South East side)
991-0/2156
Fox's Gymnasium
20.8.79
GV II
Gymnasium. 1894, for Colonel Fox of the Army Gymnastic Staff; extended mid C20. Brick with slate roof. Rectangular plan with front office and N side changing rooms. EXTERIOR: single-storey; 5-bay gable and 19-bay sides. Gables have stepped corbelled brackets, and round-arched openings. Ends articulated by buttresses between sunken bays, the entrance gable has a porch with matching gable with round-arched entrance to recessed door, round-arched windows rising with the eaves, and a central oculus, the rear gable has 4 round-arched windows and a left-hand round-arched door. N side has end and central projecting gabled porches with clasping buttresses and eaves corbels, as the ends: the central porch has a round-arched doorway with splayed sides and double doors and small flanking lights beneath an oculus, end gables with 3 ground-floor and a first-floor Venetian window, and parapeted linking ranges with 6 round-arched windows; metal-framed windows. Opposite side articulated by deep buttresses, with small round-arched lights, with a central gabled porch. Front gable and rear end of N side have mid C20 single-storey extensions. Roof has large ridge lantern. INTERIOR: has front offices and side changing rooms, balcony to entrance end on cast-iron columns, and wide, light wrought-iron trusses with paired struts and curved bottom tie. HISTORY: built for the Army Gymnastic Staff, founded in 1860, as part of the rebuilding of the first temporary camps. The first of 3 similar gyms at Aldershot including the Maida Gym (qv), the second generation of army gyms, built to develop gymnastics to improve the condition of the soldiers. (Oldfield E A L: Army Gymnastic Staff- 1952-: 5; Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the first fifty years: London: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SU8596151712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 137883
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oldfield, E A L, History of the Army Gymnastic Staff, (1952), 5
Childerhouse, T, Military Aldershot the first fifty years, (1990)
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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