Newlyn Art Gallery
NEWLYN ART GALLERY, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245365
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Newlyn Art Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- NEWLYN ART GALLERY, NEW ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-03-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/13239/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245365
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Newlyn Art Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWLYN ART GALLERY, NEW 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:
- NEWLYN ART GALLERY, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penzance
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 46369 29123
Details
SW 4629 PENZANCE NEW ROAD
(South East, Off)
866/7/10006 Newlyn
Newlyn Art Gallery
GV II
Art Gallery. 1894, opened 1895. By James Hicks for the Newlyn School of Art. Granite rubble with dressed quoins and lintels, whitewashed to rear gable; front of dressed granite laid in random patterns; gabled dry slate roof with brick stacks and clay ridge tiles. EXTERIOR: the composition, crowned by a glazed lantern with hipped roof, is dominated by its gabled facade, with bargeboards to timber 'A frame' supported by granite corbels. Immediately below is a set of four brass repousse panels, framed by carved granite brackets and an ovolo-moulded lintel. Their design represents the four elements of earth, fire, air and water (taken from Genesis 1) and depict birds, mammals and reptiles of the earth and fish: made by Philip Hodder of Newlyn and students, to a design by the famous Arts and Crafts copper craftsman JD MacKenzie, with artistic direction from the Newlyn painter Gotch. Mullioned and transomed ground-floor windows, in 1:3:1 fenestration. Sculptured panel of Stanhope Forbes, founder of the gallery, by Rev. Allan Wyon, 1948. Steps with flanking walls rise to porch on right, which has half-glazed double-doors with Gothic-style surrounds to glazed upper panels set in chamfered architrave. The right-hand elevation has the gabled roof to this porch exposed to left and 2/2-pane sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Newlyn School is recognised as being on of the most significant regional schools of painting to have arisen in the Victorian period. The historic interest of this building, and its architectural quality, is enhanced by the quality and authorship of the bronze panels to the facade.
Listing NGR: SW4636929123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468707
- 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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