South Gate, Chapel, Offices and Museum, Fulwood Barracks
SOUTH GATE, CHAPEL, OFFICES AND MUSEUM, FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244769
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- South Gate, Chapel, Offices and Museum, Fulwood Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH GATE, CHAPEL, OFFICES AND MUSEUM, FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244769
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- South Gate, Chapel, Offices and Museum, Fulwood Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH GATE, CHAPEL, OFFICES AND MUSEUM, FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET 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:
- SOUTH GATE, CHAPEL, OFFICES AND MUSEUM, FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54883 31546
Details
SD53SW FULWOOD WATLING STREET ROAD
(North side)
1023/7/10003 South Gate, chapel, offices and museum, Fulwood Barracks
29.3.1982
GV II
Barrack Master's office, quartermaster's store, entrance archway and chapel, now chapel, offices and museum. 1842-1848, Major T Foster RE, for the Ordnance Board. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar gable and ridge stacks and slate roof Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan with first-floor chapel over central archway, flanking offices, with N museum.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 8:5:8-window range. Symmetrical front to parade ground has central section set forward with pilaster strips, cornice and blocking course, and lower ranges each side; 3-window pedimented section set forward with keys and imposts to rendered central segmental archway and flanking narrow round archways, clock in the pediment and a square cupola on the pediment with louvred sides and a shallow square dome with weather vane; architraves to round-arched windows, 10/10-pane ground-floor sashes and mid C20 stained glass first floor lights. Flanking ranges have inner doorways with plain surrounds to C20 doors and flat-arched 6/6-pane sashes. Single-storey lean-to buildings with end 6/6-pane sashes against either gable. Rear elevation facing barracks entrance similar, without pedimented centre, the right-hand wing has a central stair tower, and the single-storey ends have plain surrounds to flat-headed doorways. The archway supported by 2 diaphragm arches.
INTERIOR: chapel entrance to right of archway leads by mid C20 stairs to first-floor chapel, containing mid C20 pews and panelling.
HISTORY: built in response to anxiety over Chartist agitation. This is one of the earliest occurrences of a church within a barrack. Although the south-east barrack range has been lost, the original plan of 2 parade squares within a defensible perimeter wall is substantially intact, making Fulwood the most complete surviving example in England of the late eighteenth concept of barrack design.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR: MCR 58; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Lancashire: London: 1969-: 202).
Listing NGR: SD5488331546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472877
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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