Function Rooms Of St Vincent Centre Function Rooms, St Vincent School

The Function Rooms of St Vincent Centre, located at St Vincent School, were originally built as a barracks canteen in 1847 by Captain H James of the Royal Engineers. Constructed from brick with limestone rubbed brick headers, the building features brick ridge stacks and a slate hipped roof. It has a single-depth plan and consists of two storeys with single-storey wings, presenting a symmetrical façade with a plinth and a brick bracketed eaves cornice. The building has a window arrangement of seven, three, and seven, with round-arched doorways that have plate-glass fanlights on the returns. There is a full-width round-arched arcade with matching 6/6-pane sashes and flat-headed sashes on the first floor. The rear includes a central single-storey block with three pairs of half dormers and a ridge lantern. The interior does not have any special features. Historically, this canteen was part of HMS Vincent, a large Royal Marines barracks, and represents an advanced barrack design that predates the post-Crimean War reforms.