Brighton and Hove High School For Girls (The Temple)
BRIGHTON AND HOVE HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (THE TEMPLE), DENMARK TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389120
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton and Hove High School For Girls (The Temple)
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTON AND HOVE HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (THE TEMPLE), DENMARK TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389120
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton and Hove High School For Girls (The Temple)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIGHTON AND HOVE HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (THE TEMPLE), DENMARK TERRACE
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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:
- BRIGHTON AND HOVE HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (THE TEMPLE), DENMARK TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30287 04795
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004NW DENMARK TERRACE
577-1/31/182 (West side)
13/10/52 Brighton and Hove High School for
Girls (The Temple)
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER ROAD
(West side)
The Temple (Brighton and Hove High
School for Girls))
II
House, now school. 1819. Probably by Amon Wilds, for Thomas
Read Kemp. Originally it was square in plan with 5 bays on
each side, and 2-storeyed with the domed upper storey set well
back on all sides. It became a boys' school in 1828; the
present first floor on the original building dates from before
1876; the wing to the south-west corner was added, as the
inscription records, for the Girls Public Day School Company
in 1891, and further alterations were made in 1911-12; the
additions of these and other dates mean that only the east and
north sides of the building retain the original ground-floor
treatment of 5 arcaded bays.
Stucco, roof of Welsh slate.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement with dormers in mansard
roof; 8-window range to east front. Entrance in central bay of
east front, probably of c1900: flat-arched with bracketed
canopy; flat-arched windows to ground floor set back under a
round-arched arcade with paired engaged columns which taper
downwards and have Egyptian bud capitals of exaggerated form;
recessed panels to the spandrels; cornice; first-floor windows
flat-arched; cornice; stepped parapet; 3 large dormers in
mansard roof with alternating triangular and segmental
pediments; the north and south returns are detailed in much
the same way, except that the linked dormers have only
triangular pediments, and the 1891 addition occupies the
westernmost bay of the south front: this wing has flat-arched
windows set back under a round arch to the ground floor and
staircase, moulded storey band, flat-arched first-floor
windows, cornice and corner stacks; pediment to west and north
fronts. The west front of the main block much altered with a
single-storey extension of c1900 and side-stack at north-west
corner with scrolled consoles and cornice.
INTERIOR: the interior has a pair of cast-iron columns with
scalloped abaci in the hall at the south-east corner of the
building.
HISTORICAL NOTE: it is supposed to have been built on the
exact measurement's of Solomon's Temple and so is called "The
Temple".
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3028704795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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