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Latitude: 51.4021 / 51°24'7"N
Longitude: -1.3252 / 1°19'30"W
OS Eastings: 447038
OS Northings: 167220
OS Grid: SU470672
Mapcode National: GBR 81Z.1SB
Mapcode Global: VHCZJ.Z190
Plus Code: 9C3WCM2F+RW
Entry Name: Newbury Arts Centre the Temperance Hall (Now Used As Newbury Arts Centre)
Listing Date: 2 September 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1211375
English Heritage Legacy ID: 395851
ID on this website: 101211375
Location: Newbury, West Berkshire, RG14
County: West Berkshire
Civil Parish: Newbury
Built-Up Area: Newbury
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Newbury St Nicolas
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1. NORTHCROFT LANE
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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
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