Maida Gymnasium
MAIDA GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1339698
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Maida Gymnasium
- Statutory Address:
- MAIDA GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1339698
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Maida Gymnasium
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIDA GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
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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:
- MAIDA GYMNASIUM, QUEEN'S AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Rushmoor (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86299 51392
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/10/2012
SU 85 SE
991-0/2/53
20.8.79
ALDERSHOT
QUEEN'S AVENUE
(South East side)
Maida Gymnasium
GV
II
Gymnasium. c1890. Brick with slate roof Italianate style. Rectangular plan with end and central porches to E side. Single storey; 5-bay entrance gable and 19-bay sides. EXTERIOR: Entrance gable divided by pilaster strips into bays with tall corbels under the eaves, wider central bay with round-arched doorway with fanlight and double 6-panel door and oculus above; sides articulated by thick buttresses with plinths, and round-arched metal-framed windows to sides and front. Small ridge vent to the middle. E side has 3 gabled porches, the central one with clasping pilasters and corbelled eaves and a blind round arch with mid C20 door, outer porches with hipped roofs and paired sunken round windows within flat-headed sunken panels; connected by mid C20 infill changing rooms. INTERIOR: wide roof of light-weight wide-span wrought-iron trusses with paired struts and curved ties. HISTORY: Part of the Marlborough Lines (1887-92), and modelled on Fox's Gym (qv), built as part of a national programme to improve the physical condition of soldiers through gymnastics. (Oldfield E A L: Army Gymnastic Staff. 1952-: 1-10; Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the first fifty years: London: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SU8596151712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 137880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oldfield, E A L, History of the Army Gymnastic Staff, (1952), 1-10
Childerhouse, T, Military Aldershot the first fifty years, (1990)
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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