Burstow Gallery and Hall, Brighton College

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BRIGHTON

TQ3204SW EASTERN ROAD
577-1/42/237 (North side)
Burstow Gallery and Hall, Brighton
College

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College hall and art gallery, with rifle range and armoury in
basement. 1913-1914; added to in 1926. Designed by FT
Cawthorne. Brick in English bond to ground floor; split flint
and split flint with brick panels above; stone and brick
dressings; roof of tile. Rectangular in plan with 7-window
range to main and rear elevations; right return of one-window
range and left- of 2. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: basement with 2-storey hall above. All windows are 4
centred with reticulated tracery, those on right return with 5
lights, the rest with 2. The main entrance is through a
single-storey porch to the left of the hall; it is flat arched
with 4-centred blind arch surround with carved spandrels and
an overlight; the wall above is a mix of flint and brick
panels, a motif picked up from Jackson's buildings of the 1883
to 1887. In the centre above door a stone plaque carved with
the College's coat of arms. A short flint and brick wall ties
this to the main of Chichester House (qv). The wall, added by
Cawthorne in 1926, is pierced by a 4-centred diaphragm arch
leading back to the Woolton Building to which this listing
does not apply. A flat-arched entrance to hall in the
fifth-window range; in the first-window range a 2-light
window. Otherwise the lower area is plain. Setting off the
hall is a sill band. The hall windows are further tied by a
continuous springing band, above which the split flint wall
gives way to a wall of flint and brick chequers. Corner
buttresses of 2 set backs. 2 stone lacing courses to right
return of brick. The walls of returns rise above the facing
gable to form parapets, which terminate in the long walls as
short plinths giving the end gables a set back effect.
The rear elevation is nearly identical to the entrance facade,
except for the fact that it is all of red brick in English
bond. The architect, once again, picking up Jackson's theme of
using red brick without flint to the outward facing walls of
the College buildings.
INTERIOR: inside the hall roof is of 6 bays; king post roof of
3 sections: shallow flat soffits to long sides while the main
span is a wood boarded elliptical barrel vault. Each bay is
subdivided into 3 compartments by shallow ribs. To either side
of ridge piece are a line of trefoil openings. Each tie beam
supported by a pair of arched struts which rise from wood wall
posts carried on large, plain corbels. The walls are topped by
a crenellated cornice. Wood panelling to shoulder height on
side walls. At rear of hall a single-storey wooden gallery
reached by 2 flights of stairs; elevated stage at the far end.




Listing NGR: TQ3232404085

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