Former Francis Close College Old Practising School
FORMER FRANCIS CLOSE COLLEGE OLD PRACTISING SCHOOL, CLEGG BUILDING AND BODLEY BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ST PAULS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387896
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Francis Close College Old Practising School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER FRANCIS CLOSE COLLEGE OLD PRACTISING SCHOOL, CLEGG BUILDING AND BODLEY BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ST PAULS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1387896
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Francis Close College Old Practising School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER FRANCIS CLOSE COLLEGE OLD PRACTISING SCHOOL, CLEGG BUILDING AND BODLEY BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ST PAULS ROAD
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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:
- FORMER FRANCIS CLOSE COLLEGE OLD PRACTISING SCHOOL, CLEGG BUILDING AND BODLEY BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ST PAULS ROAD
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 94624 23128
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 November 2022 to update the name, to change numbers to words and to reformat text to current standards.
CHELTENHAM
SO9423SE
630-1/5/846
ST PAUL'S ROAD (South side)
05/05/72
Former Francis Close College Old Practising School
(Formerly Listed as: ST PAUL'S ROAD Old Practising School)
GV
II*
School, now college. 1854-58. G F Bodley, architect. Stone over brick with steeply-pitched tiled roofs; half-hipped gables, gables, gambrel and mansard roofs; tall stone chimney stacks. Gothic style. Irregular U-plan.
EXTERIOR: single tall storey school room with single bay to gable end and four-bay return; range to rear with two storeys with attics, three first-floor windows, then a further two-storey, single-bay range with attic to gable. School room: gable end has set into it a three-light mullion and transom window with cusped rectangular heads to the lights, Gothic arch above with tile-filled spandrel. Entrance to right return in gabled porch has plank door, then three two-light windows with shaped heads; off-centre projecting stack. Attached behind a taller block with Gothic windows, those to ground floor are four-light mullion and transom windows with quatrefoil type decoration to heads and relieving arches over, inserted entrance at right a plank door in pointed surround; upper stage has three-light cusped window and two two-light straight-headed windows. Straight-headed roof dormers; feature off-centre stack. Further gabled range has two cusped lights to ground floor with buttress between, first floor has two-light window in cusped surround; attic has three-light window with colonnettes between and decorative arches over with impost band. Part to right has mansard roof.
INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with stick balusters and newel posts to right part; otherwise not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally designed to link with St Paul's Training College (qv), Swindon Road.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475889
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 146
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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