Kings School Gymnasium
KINGS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245961
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Kings School Gymnasium
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245961
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Kings School Gymnasium
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
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:
- 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
Details
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)
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472132
- 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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