St Mary's Hall
ST MARY'S HALL, 76, ST MARY'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393939
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S HALL, 76, ST MARY'S STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393939
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARY'S HALL, 76, ST MARY'S STREET
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.
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:
- ST MARY'S HALL, 76, ST MARY'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 42497 11963
Details
983/0/10055 ST MARY'S STREET 26-AUG-03 76 St Mary's Hall
II Masonic lodge, later public library and temperance hall. 1884 incorporating earlier work internally at ground level, to the designs of William Burrough Hill. Brick with cement-rendered front, flat roof. Long, narrow hall with small balcony and ancillary side rooms erected over earlier stabling, and incorporating ground-floor stabling and kitchens to the adjoining Kingsland Tavern, to which it was attached until 1888. Secondary access to Johnson Street added in 1908. Three-bay frontage to St Mary's Street has central door with three large windows above. These in aediculed and pedimented surrounds with console brackets; segmental arched heads to flanking windows, central window with full pediment and keystones. Pedimented doorcase with brackets and keystones. The upper part of the cement banding to the original blind ground floor survives above later shopfronts; shopfronts were first installed in 1886 to left and in 1892 to right. Interior. Stairs lead from entrance straight to first-floor hall. To the side of this a small flight of 1884 continues to slightly curved timber balcony over. High hall has central glazed lantern with timber surrounds with dentils, moulded in the form of triglyphs. Moulded plaster cornice and frieze, particularly elaborate in area over balcony. Reeded doorcase to former bar to south, originally linked to tavern, may incorporate earlier work. Simpler door of 1908 to back stairs. St Mary's Hall was built as a lodge, but in 1888 was adapted as Southampton's first free public library, opened 15 January 1889 at a rental of £70 p.a. from Forders Brewery. In 1905 it became a temperance hall. Included as a rare example of an 1880s freemasons' lodge, with added historical interest in being Southampton's first free public library and later a temperance hall. An unusually well-documented and complete surviving Victorian hall.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 501921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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