Victoria Cross Gallery
VICTORIA CROSS GALLERY, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283846
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Cross Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA CROSS GALLERY, MARKET PLACE
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- 2000-07-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/99001/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283846
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Cross Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA CROSS GALLERY, MARKET PLACE
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:
- VICTORIA CROSS GALLERY, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wantage
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39800 87879
Details
WANTAGE MARKET PLACE
SU3987NE (South side)
9/112 Victoria Cross Gallery
03/12/69 (Formerly listed as Victoria
Gallery)
GV II
Corn exchange converted into picture gallery c.1890, now shopping arcade and
offices. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar ground floor; Flemish bond yellow brick with
red brick quoins and dressings; old tile roof. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Ground
floor of c.1890 divided into 2 bays by pilasters with grey limestone composite
capitals; ovolo-moulded segmental-arched entry to left; plain frieze has
"VICTORIA CROSS GALLERY" in capital letters flanked by panelled strips. Gauged
brick segmental arches with flush keystones to late C19 horned sashes. Red brick
string course. Dentilled cornice. Gabled roof with crested ridge tiles; gable
end stack to right. Interior not inspected. Formerly the Corn Exchange,
converted c.1890 into the Victoria Cross Gallery by Colonel Sir Robert
Loyd-Lindsay V.C. (Lord Wantage) to house pictures of Victoria Cross heroes by
Claudier Desanges. Included for group value.
(A. Gibbons and E.C. Davey, Wantage Past and Present, 1904, p.101).
Listing NGR: SU3980087879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251208
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gibbons, A, Davey, E C, Wantage Past and Present, (1901), 101
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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