Description

ROMSEY ROAD
1.
5241
SU 4729 SE 5/451 Peninsular Barracks
Chapel and Schoolroom
II
2.
SCHOOLROOM AND CHAPEL. 1852, with later C19 additions. Walls of red brick with coursed
squared flint panels and Portland Stone dressings. Roofs slated except south porch,
asphalt. Simple rectangular plan, partitioned to give schoolroom to south and chapel
to north; entered via low porch to south. Late C19 additions to chapel. East and West
elevations Ubays, separated by brick pilasters with stone imposts, from which spring
segemental arches carrying a continuous eaves. Each bay has a 40 pane cast iron window
(the centre modified to open) in an opening with stone cill, brick jambs and cambered
brick arch set in a panel of flintwork. Shallow pitched roof; gables treated as pediments
(open to north) with stucco cornices and oculus to south. Apse (to north) and porch
(to west) added 1891 in Neo-Norman style, red brick walls, the apse with a moulded string
course, stepped corbel-table and 3 narrow lights vestries to east and west at north end
later C19 gothic. Utilitarian interior, with painted brick walls and queen post trusses
exposed to collar level. Built for the Royal Greenjackets, before the 1857 regulation
requiring the provision of regimental schools. (Hampshire Chronicle, 1851-2).

Listing NGR: SU4771429457

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26633922

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)