Gymnasium, Royal Military Academy

Gymnasium, Royal Military Academy, London Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390369
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: Gymnasium, Royal Military Academy
Statutory Address:: Gymnasium, Royal Military Academy, London Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390369
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: Gymnasium, Royal Military Academy
Statutory Address 1:: Gymnasium, Royal Military Academy, London Road

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Gymnasium, Royal Military Academy, London Road

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

District:: Bracknell Forest (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sandhurst
National Grid Reference:: SU 86029 61184

Details

SU86SE 674-1/18/300

SANDHURST LONDON ROAD (north west side) Royal Military Academy Gymnasium

08/07/98

GV II

Gymnasium. c1910, probably by H.B Measures, Director of Barrack Construction at the War Office.

MATERIALS: brick and render with Bath stone ashlar dressings, and slate roof.

PLAN: rectangular gym with corner stair towers, south side changing rooms and central north fencing room with flanking store and boiler room and chimney.

STYLE: Edwardian Baroque style. EXTERIOR: externally three storeys, thirteen-bay range. Gabled with banded rustication to lower section and clasping quoin strips, and mullion and transom bottom hung casements with metal framed windows, three-stage corner towers with quoin strips finishing in swagged caps, first floor cornice and segmental pediment to top, with copper clad dome and finial, doorways in gables have brackets to segmental arched canopies, and double half-glazed doors, with 9/9-pane first floor windows. End gables have ashlar band, wide tripartite window above cill band with cill blocks, banded jambs and cornice and central three-light and outer two-light windows, keyed oculus to top of gable flanked by banded pilaster strips, with swan's neck pediment with swag to top. South side has central two storey gabled porch two bays deep with wide segmental arch to pair of double doors, flanking small lights, three 6/6-pane sashes above, and a keyed oculus in gable, each side single storey, four-bay range with three-light windows with rubbed brick heads and blocking course, in front of two storey aisle, has smaller three-light windows beneath cornice. Rendered gym has four three-light lunettes under eaves each side of porch. Similar north side has central gabled wing four-bays deep with gabled porch and three cross windows, with three-bay service ranges either side with garage doors and roof lights and square battered chimney with cornice and coping.

INTERIOR: bowed roof with concrete beams, galleries both sides with metal balusters, and dogleg stair up from lobby.

HISTORY: part of early C20 expansion of the College, styled as the New College (qv). Though following same plan, this is most architecturally developed of late C19, early C20 expansion of Army gyms with fine decorative use of materials and interesting in conjunction with the old gym, now the Library(qv).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 489352
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
Other
PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: Gymnasium: ALD/44-93; Oldfield EAL: The Army Gymnastic Staff: 1952

Legal

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