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Longsmith Street
Longsmith Street is a street in Gloucester that runs from Bearland in the north to Southgate Street in the south. The street includes a number of listed buildings: * 2 Longsmith Street & 28 Southgate Street * 4 Longsmith Street * Bearland House * Bearland Lodge * Gloucester Crown Court Gloucester Crown Court is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases at Bearland, Gloucester, England. The court, which is located at the back of Gloucester Shire Hall, is a grade II listed building. History The original venue for ju ..., part of the Shire Hall complex designed by Robert Smirke. * Ladybellegate House References External links Streets in Gloucester {{England-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucester
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east of the border with Wales. Including suburban areas, Gloucester has a population of around 132,000. It is a port, linked via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal to the Severn Estuary. Gloucester was founded by the Romans and became an important city and '' colony'' in AD 97 under Emperor Nerva as '' Colonia Glevum Nervensis''. It was granted its first charter in 1155 by Henry II. In 1216, Henry III, aged only nine years, was crowned with a gilded iron ring in the Chapter House of Gloucester Cathedral. Gloucester's significance in the Middle Ages is underlined by the fact that it had a number of monastic establishments, including: St Peter's Abbey founded in 679 (later Gloucester Cathedral), the nearby St Oswald's Priory, Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southgate Street
Southgate Street is one of the ancient streets in the City of Gloucester, so named because its southern end was originally the location of the south gate in the city's walls. The part beyond the gate as far as Severn Street was sometimes known as Lower Southgate Street. It runs from the crossroads of Northgate Street, Northgate, Eastgate Street, Eastgate, Southgate, and Westgate Street, Westgate Streets in the north (The Cross) to Bristol Road in the south. History The street dates from at least 1500 when the southern gate in the city's defences was approximately where Commercial Road, Gloucester, Commercial Road meets Southgate Street today. Listed buildings and structures Listed buildings and structures in Southgate Street, north to south, are: East side * St Michael's Tower, Gloucester, St Michael's Tower * 5 Southgate Street * 9 and 9A Southgate Street, Gloucester, 9 and 9A Southgate Street * 27 Southgate Street * 29 and 31 Southgate Street * Former St Mary de Crypt School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In England
This is an as yet incomplete list of listed buildings in England, which are the majority of the listed buildings of the United Kingdom. The organisation of the lists in this series is on the same basis as the statutory register. County names are those used in the register, broadly based on the ceremonial counties and not always matching the current administrative areas. Grade I listed buildings in England At the end of 2010 there were approximately 374,081 listed buildings in England and 2.5% of these are categorized as Grade I.Listed Buildings at english-heritage.org.uk, Retrieved 4 January 2011 ;See also * |
Bearland House
Bearland House is a grade II* listed building in Longsmith Street, Gloucester, England. The house was built in the 1740s and has been used for different purposes since then. Initially it was a private house. In the early 20th century it was a school and then a telephone exchange. Since then it has been offices and used for manufacturing. The west wing was demolished in 1912. History The house was built in the 1740s by local lawyer Willian Jones. This involved the rebuilding or remodelling of a previous building on the same site. In 1764 it was bought by the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. From 1904 to 1909 the building was used by the High School for Girls (now Denmark Road High School). A fire station was built on the site of the west wing in 1912. Later it was used by the General Post Office in Gloucester as a telephone exchange. In 1980 the architects Preece Payne Partnership converted the building into use as offices. In 2010 Emma Willis established a clothing manufacturi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucester Crown Court
Gloucester Crown Court is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases at Bearland, Gloucester, England. The court, which is located at the back of Gloucester Shire Hall, is a grade II listed building. History The original venue for judicial hearings in Gloucester was the Booth Hall in Westgate Street which dated from the mid-16th century. However, it was also used as an entertainment venue and, by the early 19th century, it became necessary to commission a dedicated courthouse. The building was designed by Sir Robert Smirke in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and opened in August 1816. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage in the form of a polygon of nine equal sides facing onto Bearland. The central bay featured a portico, which was projected forward, contained a round headed doorway with a fanlight and was surmounted by a parapet; it was flanked by single-storey porters' offices on either side. The main two-storey structure behind was fenestrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Smirke (architect)
Sir Robert Smirke (1 October 1780 – 18 April 1867) was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture, though he also used other architectural styles. As architect to the Board of Works, he designed several major public buildings, including the main block and façade of the British Museum. He was a pioneer of the use of concrete foundations. Background and training Smirke was born in London on 1 October 1780, the second son of the portrait painter Robert Smirke; he was one of twelve children.page 73, J. Mordaunt Crook: ''The British Museum A Case-study in Architectural Politics'', 1972, Pelican Books He attended Aspley School, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire,page 74, J. Mordaunt Crook: ''The British Museum A Case-study in Architectural Politics'', 1972, Pelican Books where he studied Latin, Greek, French and drawing, and was made head boy at the age of 15. In May 1796 he began his study of architecture as a pupil of John Soane but left after only a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladybellegate House
Ladybellegate House, 20 Longsmith Street, Gloucester GL1 2HT, (National Grid Reference: SO 83003 18556) is a Grade I listed building with English Heritage, reference number 1245726. History The building is a town house built around 1704 for Edward Wagstaffe. The house is notable for its fine Rococo plasterwork and carved oak staircase. Robert Raikes junior, founder of Sunday Schools, was born at Ladybellegate House in 1736. He also lived there from 1757 to 1772. From 1740 to 1743, the house was let to Henry Guise of Elmore during which time it was remodelled to include fine moulded panels incorporating the swan crest of the Guise family. Restoration The building was acquired from the Post Office by the Gloucester Civic Trust in 1978. A loan from the Architectural Heritage Fund was combined with a successful fund raising to enable the building to be restored and the house was reopened by HRH Princess Anne in 1979. It was the trust's first major restoration. The building was subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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