Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
844-1/8/47 King's School Gymnasium
23/01/52
(Formerly Listed as:
CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
Cathedral Church of the Holy and
Indivisible Trinity)

GV II

Gymnasium. 1852. FS Waller for the King's School in a style
modelled on late C14 work in the cathedral church. Rubble with
ashlar details, steeply pitched slate roof with small lourved
dormers and coped gables and kneelers. A large rectangular
hall at the west end of the site of the dormitory of the
former Benedictine Abbey of St Peter on the east side of and
entered from the cloister.
EXTERIOR: offset plinth, short weathered buttresses; in the
east gable-end wall a four-light window with Perpendicular
tracery and a linked pair of quatrefoil roof vents in the apex
of the gable. 4-bay west elevation with 2-light ogee-headed
windows set in square-headed openings.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8313518824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538419

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings