Lancing College, the East and West Quadrangles
LANCING COLLEGE, THE EAST AND WEST QUADRANGLES, COLLEGE DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353732
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lancing College, the East and West Quadrangles
- Statutory Address:
- LANCING COLLEGE, THE EAST AND WEST QUADRANGLES, COLLEGE DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353732
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lancing College, the East and West Quadrangles
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANCING COLLEGE, THE EAST AND WEST QUADRANGLES, COLLEGE DRIVE
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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:
- LANCING COLLEGE, THE EAST AND WEST QUADRANGLES, COLLEGE DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Adur (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lancing
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 19492 06554
Details
LANCING COLLEGE DRIVE TQ 10 NE 2/7 Lancing College, the east and west Quadrangles II*
The College of St Mary and St Nicholas was founded by Nathaniel Woodard in 1848 and originally housed in the Old Vicarage (now St Mary's House) at Shoreham-by-Sea. The earliest buildings here were the north, west and south sides of the Lower Quadrangle. They were designed by R C Carpenter and built by him between 1853 and his death in 1855 and continued by his partner, William Slater between 1855 and 1866. They are built of knapped flints with stone dressings and quoins. Slate roof. Gothic style. Casement windows. The north and south sides have three storeys and attic. Twelve windows and three gabled dormers each. Projecting cloister on ground floor with large pointed windows with cusping and a sloping roof. Windows above with two or three trefoil-headed lights. The west side has two storeys and a similar cloister but not projecting. Central gable with two tall windows and clock-face above. Eight smaller gables on each side with one window each. The east side comprises the hall, which was designed by R C Carpenter's son, R R Carpenter, and built between 1866 and 1867. Seven window-bays flanked by buttresses. Four large elaborate dormers and an octagonal wooden turret with shingled spire.
The rest of the east side is open, but in front of it a detached building was erected in 1930 and designed by the Headmaster, Dr Blakiston, in matching style. Two tall gables and one gabled dormer between. Windows of two, three or four lights with trefoil-headed lights. Pointed doorway.
In the Upper Quadrangle the south and east sides are by William Slater, the north side by R H Carpenter and the west side by Maxwell Ayrton, completed in 1913. Two storeys. Twenty windows to each side. The north, west and south sides have a cloister with pointed arches. The east side has a central projecting octagonal turret with a polygonal shingled roof. The north side has a central five-sided projection with polygonal shingled roof. Three large "Decorated windows. In the north west corner is a taller building of gate-house type. This has five storeys and three windows. Castellated parapet. Two projecting turrets at the angles. The west front has a large central gabled projection with stair turret to south west of it. Graded partly for historical interest as the central buildings of Woodard's scheme of education.
Listing NGR: TQ1945206529
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297258
- 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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