The Minstrels Gallery Restaurant the Priory Club and Squash Courts
THE MINSTRELS GALLERY RESTAURANT, FRANKLYNN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192431
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Minstrels Gallery Restaurant the Priory Club and Squash Courts
- Statutory Address:
- THE MINSTRELS GALLERY RESTAURANT, FRANKLYNN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192431
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Minstrels Gallery Restaurant the Priory Club and Squash Courts
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MINSTRELS GALLERY RESTAURANT, FRANKLYNN ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE PRIORY CLUB AND SQUASH COURTS, FRANKLYNN 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 MINSTRELS GALLERY RESTAURANT, FRANKLYNN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY CLUB AND SQUASH COURTS, FRANKLYNN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Mid Sussex (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haywards Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33479 23479
Details
TQ 32 SW HAYWARDS HEATH FRANKLYNN ROAD 4/117 The Minstrels Gallery Restaurant, The Priory Club and Squash Courts II Restaurant, club and squash courts, formerly a conventual chapel. 1887-88 by Edward Goldie, formerly the chapel to the Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel converted with minimal alterations in later C20. Built of red brick with slate roof to nave and chancel and tiled roof to aisles. 5 bays. Central octagonal cupola with weathervane. End gables have stone bands and cross-shaped saddlestones. Nave and chancel have large windows with elaborate tracery and flying buttresses to aisles. These have Tudor arches with 15 pane "Chinoiserie" type metal cames. West front has image niche. Internally the space has been divided vertically with squash courts below and restaurant above with false floor inserted. West door has stone 4 centred archway with carvings of loaves and fishes in the spandrels. Cinquefoil-headed stoup. Boarded roof with modified post and windbrace type roof with quadripartite crown posts. Angel corbels. East end has fresco of Christ in Majesty. The former carved wooden reredos has been moved to the east corner of the north wall to form a wine display unit. It has elaborate painted panels depicting the Sacrifice of Isaac and other biblical scenes. Fine series of stained glass windows. Attached former convent accommodation, now offices, not of special interest. (See Pevsner, Buildings of England, Sussex, p 550).
Listing NGR: TQ3347923479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303028
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 550
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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