Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422NE ST GEORGE'S PLACE 630-1/9/815 (West side) 14/11/88 Shaftesbury Hall

GV II

Training college. 1869. Red brick with bands of blue brick and Bath stone dressings, Welsh slate hipped roofs and 2 tall brick ridge stacks with cornices. Stylistically plain but with some Ruskinian Venetian Gothic derivation. U-shaped plan with central block standing proud and matched wings going back and forming an internal courtyard. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 7-bay front: 1-5-1 fenestration, the outside bays being the gable ends of the rear wings. Paired 1/1 and 2/2 sash windows to outer 4 bays of main range, with triple window to centre and to recessed sides, pointed heads to ground and first floors with alternately coloured voussoirs, and continuous hoodmould to ground floor, Caernarvon arches to second floor, chamfered sills, brick mullions, stone heads continuous drip mould to ground and first floors. Central entrance with stone Venetian porch, paired columns with foliated capitals, within a part-glazed door with sidelights and pointed overlight. Dentil cornice on heavy brackets. Left-hand wing of 8 bays; right-hand of 12 bays, almost all are paired windows. Courtyard elevations slightly altered. INTERIOR: reported as severely plain with simple stairs. Originally classrooms below and dormitories above but all now partitioned. Chamfered lambs' tongue stopped ceiling beams on stone corbel brackets. Built as the women's hall for the Church of England teacher training college and used as such 1869-1961. It is thus an early specially designed building for women's education and is contemporary with Girton College, Cambridge. The attached hall to the south west is not included. Occupies a good corner site, forming part of a distinguished group of Victorian buildings (within the Regency new town) which include Church of St Matthew (qv) and Library, Museum and Art Gallery (qv), Clarence Street and Electricity House, St George's Place (qv). (Challinor EB: The Story of St Mary's College, Cheltenham: 1978-; List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Department of the Environment: Borough of Cheltenham: 1983-).





Listing NGR: SO9460622540

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