CHICHESTER THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE GILLETT HOUSE

CHICHESTER THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, TOLLHOUSE CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271544
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: CHICHESTER THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE GILLETT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHICHESTER THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, TOLLHOUSE CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271544
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: CHICHESTER THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE GILLETT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHICHESTER THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, TOLLHOUSE CLOSE
Statutory Address 2:: GILLETT HOUSE, TOLLHOUSE CLOSE

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:: CHICHESTER THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, TOLLHOUSE CLOSE
Statutory Address:: GILLETT HOUSE, TOLLHOUSE CLOSE

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County:: West Sussex
District:: Chichester (District Authority)
Parish:: Chichester
National Grid Reference:: SU 85606 04812

Details

SU 8504 NE CHICHESTER TOLLHOUSE CLOSE 3/10005 Gillett House, Chichester Theological College

II

Student residence for theological college. 1963-65. Designed by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek. Red brick and exposed board-marked concrete. Three storey building of courtyard plan containing 35 study bedrooms, three staff flats, a library and attached lecture room and a tiny chapel, two storeys in height, opening from the first floor corridor. The study-bedrooms are in groups of five, sharing sanitary facilities and a kettle point. The architectural language is that which has become known as the 'new brutalism' with 'chunky' detailing in board-marked concrete and brick. Strongly sculptural form, with a top-lit projecting bay to each room, expressing the desk alcove within and flanked to one side by a plate glass window of vertical proportions in a timber frame. Flats have two-light projecting bay windows and the library has full-height windows, some of which are designed to swivel sideways. Entrance by slightly raised walkway of red brick paviours, which slope diagonally down to lower level courtyard, also similarly paved. Walkways at first and second floors overlook courtyard and have deep board-marked concrete beam/balustrades. Also visible from courtyard are two polygonal staircases of brick. Windows to courtyard comprise vertical slots, without visible sub-frames. Study bedrooms have built-in furniture of laminated timber; also a small built-in concrete altar-shelf and a small sink, screened by a diagonally projecting concrete spur wall. Kettle points are screened from corridors by shoulder-height polygonal walls of painted blockwork; one of these at second floor level has a tubular top-light. On the top floor also there are triangular top-lights between each pair of rooms, the doors of which are set back diagonally to accommodate these. Some door lintels are inscribed with names (presumably of donors). The chapel occupies just less than the width of a study-bedroom and is a double-height space with a gallery overlooking the altar below, open plan with the corridor at lower level. Built-in raised kneeling places in the paving mark the threshold in a staggered pattern. The library is top lit with a cascading diagonal roof. A later spiral staircase links it with an upper floor room. Gillett House is a building of visual strength and sculptural power in which the handling of light and detailing show considerable imagination.

Listing NGR: SU8560604812

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Legacy System number:: 454409
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.