Breakaway Sports Centre Breakaway Sports Club
BREAKAWAY SPORTS CENTRE, MEADFOOT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206804
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Breakaway Sports Centre Breakaway Sports Club
- Statutory Address:
- BREAKAWAY SPORTS CENTRE, MEADFOOT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206804
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Breakaway Sports Centre Breakaway Sports Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- BREAKAWAY SPORTS CENTRE, MEADFOOT ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- BREAKAWAY SPORTS CLUB, TORWOOD GARDENS ROAD
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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:
- BREAKAWAY SPORTS CENTRE, MEADFOOT ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- BREAKAWAY SPORTS CLUB, TORWOOD GARDENS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92158 63451
Details
TORQUAY
SX9263 MEADFOOT ROAD 885-1/18/160 (North side) 10/01/75 Breakaway Sports Centre (Formerly Listed as: TORWOOD GARDENS ROAD Church of the Holy Trinity)
GV II
Parish church, redundant and now in use as sports centre. 1894 by Watson and Watson on the site of an earlier chapel. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with sandstone dressings; slate roof, ornamental ridge tiles. Late example of Early English/Decorated Revival. PLAN: Nave; apsidal chancel; north and south aisles; north and south transepts; north porch into transept; chapel and vestry off chancel; north west tower. The conversion has involved walling off the aisles and inserting a floor in the nave with steps up from the former chancel. EXTERIOR: 3-sided apse with 2-light Decorated traceried windows. Transept windows 4-light and transomed, transepts with angle buttresses. Porch on west wall of north transept with a moulded 2-centred doorway with nook shafts. 5-bay aisles have lean-to roofs; bays divided by buttresses with set-offs; clerestory bays divided by pilasters. Triple lancets to aisles; lancets to clerestory. 3-light Decorated traceried window in west end of south aisle. 7-light west window with Geometric Decorated tracery. 3-stage tower with angle buttresses and a 3-sided stair turret on the east side; tall stone spire supported by flying buttresses. Tower has a richly moulded 2-centred arched west doorway and pairs of large lancets to the other faces. Frieze of blind trefoil-headed arcading to bottom stage. Belfry stage has big paired louvred lancet openings and Y tracery. Trefoil-headed arcade forms parapet. Octagonal corner pinnacles to angle and flying buttresses have blind trefoil-headed arcade and conical spire. 2-light lucarnes with Y tracery to 4 sides of spire. INTERIOR: 5-bay aisles have octagonal piers with stiff-leaf carved capitals. Nave open roof survives in first-floor gymnasium: arched braced on stiff-leaf carved corbels. Chancel polychromy, including stencilled wall decoration and the painted roof survives from the level of the springing of the window arches. Good stained glass intact: 3 east windows by Drake; excellent west window of 1907 designed by Maurice Drake and executed by Drake and Son (Devon Nineteenth-Century Churches Project). A very late example of Early English revival. The spire is an important element in the townscape. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.848; Brooks C: Devon Nineteenth Century Churches Project Archive).
Listing NGR: SX9215863451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brooks, C, Cherry, M, Cox, J, Devon Nineteenth Century Churches Project Archive, ()
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 848
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Devon, (1952), 848
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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