VICTORIA INSTITUTE WITH ATTACHED WALL, PIERS AND GATES

VICTORIA INSTITUTE WITH ATTACHED WALL, PIERS AND GATES, SANSOME WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390145
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: VICTORIA INSTITUTE WITH ATTACHED WALL, PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: VICTORIA INSTITUTE WITH ATTACHED WALL, PIERS AND GATES, SANSOME WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390145
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: VICTORIA INSTITUTE WITH ATTACHED WALL, PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: VICTORIA INSTITUTE WITH ATTACHED WALL, PIERS AND GATES, SANSOME WALK

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: VICTORIA INSTITUTE WITH ATTACHED WALL, PIERS AND GATES, SANSOME WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 84964 55389

Details

WORCESTER

SO8455SE SANSOME WALK 620-1/12/506 (West side) 05/04/71 Victoria Institute with attached wall, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: SANSOME WALK (West side) Technical College)

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Formerly known as: School of Art and Science SANSOME WALK. Formerly known as: Secondary School for Girls SANSOME WALK. School, now vacant and attached wall, piers and gates. c1896 with later additions and alterations including the former Girls School to the rear of c1909. Girls School believed to be by City Architect, Mr Parker, School of Art and Science probably by J W Simpson and Milner Allen. Red brick in Flemish bond with terracotta dressings; plain tile roof; cast-iron gates. STYLE: free Renaissance. EXTERIOR: irregular facade of 3 storeys with attics and 4 storeys, 4 bays. Facade surmounted by irregular gables with attic dormer to second bay and with embattled octagonal turret at right with weather vane. 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-light mullion windows, in tooled and quoined terracotta surrounds and with cornices, some with shaped cornices. Flight of steps to off-centre entrance inscribed 'Art and Science' in metal lettering, double part-glazed doors with fanlight, within glazed 2-storey porch. Left return: 3 storeys, 5 irregular bays, which break forwards an are set back. Off-centre left entrance, double, panelled doors with fanlight with decorative glazing bars in pilastered surround with round-arched hood on scrolled brackets, above this a terracotta panel with 2 girls and in raised lettering, 'SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS'. Mainly 2-light mullion and mullion-and-transom windows in tooled surrounds, some with cornices. Parapet with cartouche over centre and gable to right bay. INTERIOR: retains staircase with cast-iron balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall and gates to left return, wall has terracotta band and copings, similar piers, square on plan and with shaped caps. HISTORICAL NOTE: The 1905 O.S. map shows the City Museum, Foregate Street (qv) and the School of Art and Science, Sansome Walk with just a narrow link between the two; the 1928 map shows the link replaced by the Girls School. Pevsner: 'In the same style and no doubt by the same architect as the Victoria Institute. (now Library, Museum and Art Gallery, Foregate Street (qv)) The facade is in its own way as successful.' Forms an integral group with the Library, Museum and Art Gallery, Foregate Street (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 324).

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Legacy System number:: 489115
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.