Kings School Gymnasium

KINGS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1245961
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
Statutory Address:
KINGS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1245961
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Dec-1998
Statutory Address 1:
KINGS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS

Location

Statutory Address:
KINGS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SO 83135 18824

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GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS 844-1/8/47 King's School Gymnasium 23/01/52 (Formerly Listed as: CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity)

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Gymnasium. 1852. FS Waller for the King's School in a style modelled on late C14 work in the cathedral church. Rubble with ashlar details, steeply pitched slate roof with small lourved dormers and coped gables and kneelers. A large rectangular hall at the west end of the site of the dormitory of the former Benedictine Abbey of St Peter on the east side of and entered from the cloister. EXTERIOR: offset plinth, short weathered buttresses; in the east gable-end wall a four-light window with Perpendicular tracery and a linked pair of quatrefoil roof vents in the apex of the gable. 4-bay west elevation with 2-light ogee-headed windows set in square-headed openings. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8313518824

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472132
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