FRONT RANGE, ST VINCENT SCHOOL

FRONT RANGE, ST VINCENT SCHOOL, FORTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233240
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1971
List Entry Name:: FRONT RANGE, ST VINCENT SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FRONT RANGE, ST VINCENT SCHOOL, FORTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233240
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: FRONT RANGE, ST VINCENT SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FRONT RANGE, ST VINCENT SCHOOL, FORTON ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FRONT RANGE, ST VINCENT SCHOOL, FORTON ROAD

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County:: Hampshire
District:: Gosport (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 60998 00375

Details

GOSPORT SU 6100 FORTON ROAD (North side) 1137-0/5/47 Front range, St Vincent School 25.2.71

GV II

Barracks entrance gateway, guard house, offices and school; now college. 1847, by Captain H James, RE. Brick with limestone dressings and rubbed brick headers, brick ridge stacks and slate hipped roof. Single-depth axial plan with central clock tower gateway. EXTERIOR: Single storey; 18:7:15-window range. Near symmetrical range with plinth, cornice and parapet. Gateway has a tall round archway with rusticated jambs, voussoirs and scrolled key, impost band, cornice and clock, with a square belcote with louvred round-arched openings and ogee hipped roof with ball finial on scrolled supports; a round wicket archway connects with pedimented guard houses each side with round-arched 6/6-pane sashes within matching arched recesses, outer quadrant walls curve forward, a ball finial on the front corner, and outer front sections. Flanking ranges have rubbed brick heads to 6/6-pane sashes with rectangular sunken panels above, with 3-bay sections set forward 4 bays from the centre with a raised recessed panel in the parapet, and windows set within an arcade of round-arched recesses. 7-bay left-hand former school has a raised glazed ridge lantern. Similar rear has pedimented guard houses set forward, with a verandah on cast-iron posts to the inner sides facing the archway, and half-glazed mid C20 doors. Former school has a 5-bay glazed raking roof on iron brackets, and the opposite end has a similar 9-bay glazed verandah on cast-iron posts. INTERIOR: Altered, without special features. HISTORY: Built as part of Forton Royal Marines barracks, late HMS St Vincent, with the integrated front range of left-hand school, for children of marines, and school master's house, central guard houses and right-hand adjudant's and commandant's offices fronting the parade ground. An advanced barrack design, including one of the earliest surviving barracks schools, by a leading engineer architect with major works in the Portsmouth dockyard, pre-dating the post Crimean War reforms. (SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted Bastions, Historic Naval and Military Architecture: London: 1993-: 181; Professional Papers of the Royal Marines: Captain H James RE: Additions at Forton to accommodate the Portsmouth Division: Chatham: 1851-: 101-113).

Listing NGR: SU6140100217

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Legacy System number:: 408684
Legacy System:: LBS

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SAVE Britains Heritage, , Deserted Bastions, (1993), 181

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.