Newbury Arts Centre the Temperance Hall (Now Used As Newbury Arts Centre)
NEWBURY ARTS CENTRE, NORTHCROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211375
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Newbury Arts Centre the Temperance Hall (Now Used As Newbury Arts Centre)
- Statutory Address:
- NEWBURY ARTS CENTRE, NORTHCROFT LANE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211375
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Newbury Arts Centre the Temperance Hall (Now Used As Newbury Arts Centre)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWBURY ARTS CENTRE, NORTHCROFT LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE TEMPERANCE HALL (NOW USED AS NEWBURY ARTS CENTRE), NORTHCROFT LANE
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:
- NEWBURY ARTS CENTRE, NORTHCROFT LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE TEMPERANCE HALL (NOW USED AS NEWBURY ARTS CENTRE), NORTHCROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47038 67220
Details
1. NORTHCROFT LANE 5127 The Temperance Hall (Now used as Newbury Arts Centre) SU 4767 SW 6/178
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2. Circa 1859 Temperance Hall in Gothic style. A remodelling of 5 old cottages previously used by the Blue Coat Charity School. Two storeys. Gabled symmetrical front to road. Tiled roof with coped gables surmounted by tall iron wind vane. Red brick with freestone dressings. Arched openings with keystones and hoods; windows with glazing bars. Central doorway with fanlight and panelled door. Stone plaque over entrance inscribed 'Temperance Hall'. Four tablets at plinth level inscribed 'Wine is a mocker/Strong drink is raging/It stingeth like an adder/The drunkard shall come to poverty.' The hall is now used as a store. The Blue Coat Charity School adapted existing cottages on this site for use as a school when the establishment was transferred here in circa 1722 from the Cloth Hall (see Museum, Wharf Street). The school remained here until circa 1859 when the St Nicholas (National) School, Enmore Road (qv) was built. Listed for historical and sociological interest. (VCH Berkshire 4, 146; Newbury Buildings Past and Present (1973) 94).
Listing NGR: SU4703867220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395851
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 146
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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