Old College with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy
Old College with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy, London Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390376
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old College with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy
- Statutory Address:
- Old College with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy, London Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390376
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Old College with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old College with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy, London Road
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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.
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:
- Old College with attached lamps, 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:
- SU8585660868
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment om 11/11/2019
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SANDHURST
LONDON ROAD (north west side)
Old College with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy
(Formerly listed as Old Building with attached lamps, Royal Military Academy)
20/12/72
GV
II*
Military academy and barracks. 1807 and finished 1812. By John Sanders, architect for the Barrack Department, trident plan rear accommodation wings dated 1862 on hoppers, canteen c1910.
MATERIALS: stucco with hipped slate roof, yellow stock brick rear barrack ranges.
PLAN: symmetrical, axial plan with central chapel and rear canteen, wings set back and 1862 trident plan barracks behind.
STYLE: Greek Revival style.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic, 3:7:12:6:12:7:3-window range. Long symmetrical front with first floor cill bands, cornice and parapet, has steps up to projecting central hexastyle Greek Doric portico with coat of arms in pediment over large six-panel double door. Flanking twelve-window ranges each side with end three windows set forward. Recessed 6/6-pane sashes with ground floor cornices and first floor shouldered architraves. Outer single storey five bay colonnades link with seven bay blocks and end three-window pavilions each side. Rear cadets' accommodation three storeys with 6/6-pane sashes. Central early C20 canteen to rear.
INTERIOR: central range has flagged axial corridor with rear cantilevered open well stair with cast iron balusters, central flagged hall with chapel off to rear with segmental vault and Ionic corbels, flanking mess rooms, with panelled wainscotting, two-panel doors with reeded panels, Greek key frieze. Central first floor room with shallow domed ceiling, reeded fireplace with decorative panles. Canteen similar to that at the New Building (qv), four bays with glazed tiled walls.Trident wings have cantilevered dogleg stairs with column newels and stick balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached corner cast iron open work lamps.
HISTORY: the RMC at Sandhurst was established in 1799 as a junior officers' training college on the lines of the RMA for artillery at Woolwich. First designed by James Wyatt, surveyor to the Office of Works, and started by Alexander Copland, thelarge barracks contractor. Both were removed from the job; Sanders altered Wyatt's design, enlarging the portico.
An impressive and early example of the Greek Revival, set overlooking a parade square and fine landscaped grounds, and part of a group with the other historic college buildings at Sandhurst (qqv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489359
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 211
Shepperd, A, Sandhurst the Royal Military Academy, (1980)
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in Country Life, (1969), 1662
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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