Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1985. Chapel, schoolroom.
Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- waiting-pediment-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1985
- Type
- Chapel, schoolroom
- Address
- Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom, Romsey Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 478 292
- Coordinates
- 51.06072, -1.31861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom, built in 1852 with later 19th-century additions, features walls made of red brick with coursed squared flint panels and Portland Stone dressings. The roofs are slated, except for the south porch, which has an asphalt covering. The building has a simple rectangular plan, divided to create a schoolroom to the south and a chapel to the north, with access through a low porch on the south side.
The late 19th-century additions to the chapel include east and west elevations divided into bays by brick pilasters with stone imposts. These support segmental arches that carry a continuous eaves. Each bay contains a 40-pane cast iron window, with the central window modified to open, set within an opening featuring a stone cill, brick jambs, and a cambered brick arch surrounded by flintwork. The roof has a shallow pitch, and the gables are designed as pediments, open to the north, with stucco cornices and an oculus on the south side.
In 1891, an apse and porch were added in a Neo-Norman style, featuring red brick walls. The apse includes a moulded string course, a stepped corbel-table, and three narrow lights, with vestries on the east and west sides at the north end designed in a later 19th-century Gothic style. The interior is utilitarian, with painted brick walls and exposed queen post trusses at collar level. This building was constructed for the Royal Greenjackets before the 1857 regulation that mandated the establishment of regimental schools.
Local climate
Peninsular Barracks Chapel and Schoolroom receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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