Peninsular Barracks Chapel And Schoolroom

ROMSEY ROAD 1. 5241 SU 4729 SE 5/451 Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom II 2. SCHOOLROOM AND CHAPEL. 1852, with later C19 additions. Walls of red brick with coursed squared flint panels and Portland Stone dressings. Roofs slated except south porch, asphalt. Simple rectangular plan, partitioned to give schoolroom to south and chapel to north; entered via low porch to south. Late C19 additions to chapel. East and West elevations Ubays, separated by brick pilasters with stone imposts, from which spring segemental arches carrying a continuous eaves. Each bay has a 40 pane cast iron window (the centre modified to open) in an opening with stone cill, brick jambs and cambered brick arch set in a panel of flintwork. Shallow pitched roof; gables treated as pediments (open to north) with stucco cornices and oculus to south. Apse (to north) and porch (to west) added 1891 in Neo-Norman style, red brick walls, the apse with a moulded string course, stepped corbel-table and 3 narrow lights vestries to east and west at north end later C19 gothic. Utilitarian interior, with painted brick walls and queen post trusses exposed to collar level. Built for the Royal Greenjackets, before the 1857 regulation requiring the provision of regimental schools. (Hampshire Chronicle, 1851-2).

Listing NGR: SU4771429457