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Kings School Gymnasium

A Grade II Listed Building in Gloucester, Gloucestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8677 / 51°52'3"N

Longitude: -2.2463 / 2°14'46"W

OS Eastings: 383135

OS Northings: 218825

OS Grid: SO831188

Mapcode National: GBR 1KZ.WD3

Mapcode Global: VH94C.0BT1

Plus Code: 9C3VVQ93+3F

Entry Name: Kings School Gymnasium

Listing Date: 23 January 1952

Last Amended: 15 December 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1245961

English Heritage Legacy ID: 472132

ID on this website: 101245961

Location: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1

County: Gloucestershire

District: Gloucester

Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Gloucester

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire

Church of England Parish: Hempsted with Gloucester, Saint Mary de Lode and Saint Mary de Crypt

Church of England Diocese: Gloucester

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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

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