Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280372
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280372
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL
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:
- CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY6939473612
Details
SY6973
969-1/3/176
21/09/78
PORTLAND
THE CITADEL, The Verne
Chapel
GV
II
Prison chapel, formerly Officers' Mess. c 1865. Possibly by
Capt. W. Crossman, RE, general designer to The Citadel.
Portland stone with roach stone rustication, slate roof. Long
narrow block, main axis E/W. Central porte-cochere south side,
2+3 windows, all C20 steel casement, segmental-headed double
doors in porte-cochere with arched openings, 2 to S and 1 to E
and W. Modillion cornice and blocking course. Back of building
plain, some repairs after wartime bomb damage, 3 eaves stacks
with cappings. Interior much modified, but retains 3-arched
screen to paired columns at east end. The detail is clearly
from the same hand as Officers' Block B (qv); from remaining
foundation walls to the north it would seem that a U-plan
block was originally intended, but there is not evidence of
further progress.
Listing NGR: SY6939473612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382030
- 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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