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PORTSMOUTH

SZ6599 FAWCETT ROAD, Southsea
774-1/14/346 (West side)
25/09/72 Priory School
(Formerly Listed as:
FAWCETT ROAD
Southern Grammar School for Girls)

II

School. c1910. By GE Smith. Red brick in English bond, lavish
stone dressings. Roof concealed, brick stack with stone top
and cap at right of third bay. Symmetrical. English
Wren-Baroque Revival.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 15 bays. 3 bays at each end and at centre
project slightly with spaced flush stone quoins to first and
second floors. At centre is a 2-leaf half glazed door, each
leaf 6-panes with lower raised and fielded panel, radial
glazed fanlight set under round stone arch with keystone and
mould impost set behind stone portico with flanking Doric
columns which front Doric pilasters with stone blocks linking
lower half, broken entablature and deep open pediment with
panelled soffit, leaf motif carvings set within tympanum. On
left and right is a 12-pane sash with wood transom and 6-pane
fixed light over, each set within stone architrave, flat arch
and keystone. Further to left and to right are 6 metal
casements, each 30-panes with 2 transoms set under flat stone
arch with triple keystones rising into stone band, stone
plinth. First floor and second floor have 15 windows, each
with 20-pane unequal sashes, wood transom and 8-pane fixed
casement over set within stone eaved architrave with keystone.
On first floor windows the moulded stone architrave is
slightly swept up to keystone. Sash over portico shorter by 4
panes. Windows to bays 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 have 2 projecting
stone blocks at each jamb. Second floor sashes have long
narrow keystones running into stone frieze, modillion cornice.
3-bay centre has segmental brick pediment with stone cornice.
Each of the end 3 bays has brick parapet with stone coping.
(Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 71; Lloyd DW: Buildings
at Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 449; The
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 106, 108).

Listing NGR: SZ6516799908