Description

1. NORTHCROFT LANE
5127
The Temperance Hall
(Now used as Newbury Arts Centre)
SU 4767 SW 6/178

II GV

2.
Circa 1859 Temperance Hall in Gothic style. A remodelling of 5 old cottages
previously used by the Blue Coat Charity School. Two storeys. Gabled symmetrical
front to road. Tiled roof with coped gables surmounted by tall iron wind vane.
Red brick with freestone dressings. Arched openings with keystones and hoods;
windows with glazing bars. Central doorway with fanlight and panelled door. Stone
plaque over entrance inscribed 'Temperance Hall'. Four tablets at plinth level
inscribed 'Wine is a mocker/Strong drink is raging/It stingeth like an adder/The
drunkard shall come to poverty.' The hall is now used as a store. The Blue Coat
Charity School adapted existing cottages on this site for use as a school when the
establishment was transferred here in circa 1722 from the Cloth Hall (see Museum,
Wharf Street). The school remained here until circa 1859 when the St Nicholas
(National) School, Enmore Road (qv) was built. Listed for historical and
sociological interest.
(VCH Berkshire 4, 146; Newbury Buildings Past and Present (1973) 94).

Listing NGR: SU4703867220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26506387

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)