Description

ST ANNES STREET
1.
1594 (South Side)

The Blackmore Museum to
SU 1429 NE 4/368A the rear of the Salisbury
Museum
II
2.
Important example of a purpose built museum, virtually unaltered. Founded 1864
by W Blackmore to house a collection of artifacts, illustrating the "Stone age
of different countries", the building was specially designed by John Harding and
opened in September 1869. Built of brick with stone dressings in a gothic style,
the museum is a rectangular hall with 2 large gabled mullioned transomed lancet
light windows and a central gabled porch. Slats roof with saddlestones to gable
ends, cresting tiles to ridge. The brickwork has a simple pattern grid of
polychrome bricks. The interior has a fine hammer beam roof and battlemented
original showcases, painted and gilt, along the walls. Floor of Minton encaustic
tiles. Roof and wall decoration executed by Harland and Fisher, a London firm
in Southampton Row who carried out major decorative schemes including work at
the South Kensington Museum.

Listing NGR: SU1473829586

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562639

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)