Holy Apostles Old School
HOLY APOSTLES OLD SCHOOL, 175, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386622
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Apostles Old School
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY APOSTLES OLD SCHOOL, 175, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386622
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Apostles Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY APOSTLES OLD SCHOOL, 175, LONDON 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:
- HOLY APOSTLES OLD SCHOOL, 175, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlton Kings
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 96000 21284
Details
CHARLTON KINGS
SO9521SE LONDON ROAD 630-1/28/76 (South West side) 18/02/82 No.175 Holy Apostles Old School
GV II
School. 1872-73, with mid C20 additions and alterations including entrance range to east. Architect, John Middleton. Gothic Revival, Early Decorated style. Rough-faced coursed limestone with grey and green stone dressings and double-pitch tiled roof. Double pile plan. EXTERIOR: single tall storey, 4 bays with apse. Offset buttresses. Entrance in C20 range to east end; above are 3-light windows with Geometric-type tracery to head in pointed-arched, hollow-moulded surrounds and alternately coloured voussoirs to head, to each gable and with quatrefoils above. Stone copings to gables. Sides, alike: four 3-cusped-light straight-headed windows with hollow-moulded mullions in double-chamfered surrounds. Apse has 2-light windows with Geometric-type tracery to heads in pointed surrounds with alternately coloured voussoirs to head, a gable to each facet of the apse; blocked doorway. 2 roof dormers to each side with 3-light casements, between cusped triangular vents. Bell turret to west. Cylindrical chimney to east. Decorative ridge tiles. INTERIOR: rich polychroming on timber work; 4 braced collar trusses in each isle, complex roof structure in 'apse', and on panelled frieze below wall plate. HISTORICAL NOTE: built to complement Middleton's Church of the Holy Apostles (qv), the drinking fountain, London Road (qv) forms part of the group. John Middleton was responsible for designing several of the churches in Cheltenham, including Church of All Saints, All Saints' Road; Church of St Mark, Church Road; Church of St Philip and St James, Gratton Road; Church of St Stephen, St Stephen's Road (qqv). (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 120; Paget M (ed), Charlton Kings Local History Society: A History of Charlton Kings: Gloucester: 1988-: 162-4).
Listing NGR: SO9599621288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Paget, M, A History of Charlton Kings, (1988), 162-164
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 120
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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