Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom
PENINSULAR BARRACKS CHAPEL AND SCHOOLROOM, ROMSEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350752
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom
- Statutory Address:
- PENINSULAR BARRACKS CHAPEL AND SCHOOLROOM, ROMSEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350752
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENINSULAR BARRACKS CHAPEL AND SCHOOLROOM, ROMSEY ROAD
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:
- PENINSULAR BARRACKS CHAPEL AND SCHOOLROOM, ROMSEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47847 29264
Details
ROMSEY ROAD
1.
5241
SU 4729 SE 5/451 Peninsular Barracks
Chapel and Schoolroom
II
2.
SCHOOLROOM AND CHAPEL. 1852, with later C19 additions. Walls of red brick with coursed
squared flint panels and Portland Stone dressings. Roofs slated except south porch,
asphalt. Simple rectangular plan, partitioned to give schoolroom to south and chapel
to north; entered via low porch to south. Late C19 additions to chapel. East and West
elevations Ubays, separated by brick pilasters with stone imposts, from which spring
segemental arches carrying a continuous eaves. Each bay has a 40 pane cast iron window
(the centre modified to open) in an opening with stone cill, brick jambs and cambered
brick arch set in a panel of flintwork. Shallow pitched roof; gables treated as pediments
(open to north) with stucco cornices and oculus to south. Apse (to north) and porch
(to west) added 1891 in Neo-Norman style, red brick walls, the apse with a moulded string
course, stepped corbel-table and 3 narrow lights vestries to east and west at north end
later C19 gothic. Utilitarian interior, with painted brick walls and queen post trusses
exposed to collar level. Built for the Royal Greenjackets, before the 1857 regulation
requiring the provision of regimental schools. (Hampshire Chronicle, 1851-2).
Listing NGR: SU4771429457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 144909
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hampshire Chronicle in Hampshire Chronicle, (1851)
Hampshire Chronicle in Hampshire Chronicle, (1852)
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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