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Main Gates, Piers and Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Lower Stanton St Quintin, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5264 / 51°31'34"N

Longitude: -2.1265 / 2°7'35"W

OS Eastings: 391317

OS Northings: 180835

OS Grid: ST913808

Mapcode National: GBR 1QD.95T

Mapcode Global: VH95Z.3W4R

Plus Code: 9C3VGVGF+G9

Entry Name: Main Gates, Piers and Railings

Listing Date: 1 December 2005

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1391622

English Heritage Legacy ID: 496014

ID on this website: 101391622

Location: Lower Stanton St Quintin, Wiltshire, SN14

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Stanton St. Quintin

Built-Up Area: Lower Stanton St Quintin

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Stanton St Quintin

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


STANTON ST QUINTIN

1384/0/10028 HULLAVINGTON BARRACKS
01-DEC-05 Main gates, piers and railings

GV II
Main gates with piers and attached railings. 1935-6. A Bulloch, architectural adviser to the Air Ministry's Directorate of Works and Buildings. Drawing No 4935/35. Bath stone piers, cast iron gates and railings.

Square piers approx 3m high and 5m apart have a plain plinth but deep moulded cornice to a concave pyramidal capping with spherical lantern. Two wide gates, with a small pedestrian gate immediately beyond each pier, followed by straight runs of railing in 7 bays, stepped to a plain square pier with flat capping. Railings and gates have plain square uprights to spear-head tops, with top and bottom rails and low mid-rail.

HISTORY: A distinguished ensemble in the classical tradition, part of the original design concept for the base; the gates are centred to the principal axis of the station layout, with guardroom to the left, and station HQ straight ahead.

Hullavington, which opened on June 6th 1937 as a Flying Training Station, is in every respect the key station most strongly representative of the improved architectural quality characteristic of the air bases developed under the post-1934 expansion of the RAF. Its position in the west of England with other training and maintenance bases also prompted its selection in 1938 as one of series of Aircraft Storage Units for the storage of vital reserves destined for the operational front-line. For further details on the site, see Buildings 59, 60 and 61 (The Officers' Mess).


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