Shaftesbury Hall
SHAFTESBURY HALL, ST GEORGES PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387844
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shaftesbury Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHAFTESBURY HALL, ST GEORGES PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387844
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shaftesbury Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAFTESBURY HALL, ST GEORGES PLACE
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:
- SHAFTESBURY HALL, ST GEORGES PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94632 22518
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422NE ST GEORGE'S PLACE 630-1/9/815 (West side) 14/11/88 Shaftesbury Hall
GV II
Training college. 1869. Red brick with bands of blue brick and Bath stone dressings, Welsh slate hipped roofs and 2 tall brick ridge stacks with cornices. Stylistically plain but with some Ruskinian Venetian Gothic derivation. U-shaped plan with central block standing proud and matched wings going back and forming an internal courtyard. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 7-bay front: 1-5-1 fenestration, the outside bays being the gable ends of the rear wings. Paired 1/1 and 2/2 sash windows to outer 4 bays of main range, with triple window to centre and to recessed sides, pointed heads to ground and first floors with alternately coloured voussoirs, and continuous hoodmould to ground floor, Caernarvon arches to second floor, chamfered sills, brick mullions, stone heads continuous drip mould to ground and first floors. Central entrance with stone Venetian porch, paired columns with foliated capitals, within a part-glazed door with sidelights and pointed overlight. Dentil cornice on heavy brackets. Left-hand wing of 8 bays; right-hand of 12 bays, almost all are paired windows. Courtyard elevations slightly altered. INTERIOR: reported as severely plain with simple stairs. Originally classrooms below and dormitories above but all now partitioned. Chamfered lambs' tongue stopped ceiling beams on stone corbel brackets. Built as the women's hall for the Church of England teacher training college and used as such 1869-1961. It is thus an early specially designed building for women's education and is contemporary with Girton College, Cambridge. The attached hall to the south west is not included. Occupies a good corner site, forming part of a distinguished group of Victorian buildings (within the Regency new town) which include Church of St Matthew (qv) and Library, Museum and Art Gallery (qv), Clarence Street and Electricity House, St George's Place (qv). (Challinor EB: The Story of St Mary's College, Cheltenham: 1978-; List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Department of the Environment: Borough of Cheltenham: 1983-).
Listing NGR: SO9460622540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Challinor, E B, The Story of St Marys College Cheltenham, (1978)
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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