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St George's Church, Oakdale

St George's Church is a Church of England church in Oakdale, a suburb of Poole, Dorset, England. It was built in 1959–60 and has been Grade II Listed since 1998. History The first purpose-built church to serve the population of Oakdale was erected in 1932 and is now in use as Oakdale Library. As the suburb's population rapidly grew and Oakdale became its own parish in 1938, a larger place of worship became necessary. The earliest efforts towards a new church dated to 1939 when £2,000 was bequeathed by Miss Gaskell and a one-acre site at Darby's Lane was donated by Mr. R. Aireton. In 1947, the Western Gazette reported that Oakdale was in "urgent need" of a new church as the original St George's was consistently overcrowded. Enough funds for a replacement had been raised during the 1950s and the designs of St George's were drawn up by Robert Potter and Richard Hare. The foundation stone was laid on 25 April 1959 by Maurice Key, Bishop of Sherborne and the church was completed in 1960 and consecrated in July. Architecture St George's is built of red brick with copper sheeting on its roof. The building has a cruciform plan with short transepts and a tower to the west. The church shares architectural similarities with the Church of the Ascension in Crownhill, Plymouth, which was also designed by Potter and Hare, and opened in 1958. Historic England describes St George's as a "beautifully detailed and crafted church" which displays influences of Ninian Comper and the Liturgical Movement. References External links St George's Church Oakdale website
Holy Redeemer Church, York

The Holy Redeemer Church lies on Boroughbridge Road, in the Acomb area of York, in England. The first church here was a simple brick building, completed in 1938. This is now used as the church hall, linked to the new church, behind. The new church was constructed between 1959 and 1965, to a design by George Pace. The church reuses parts of the demolished church of St Mary, Bishophill Senior. The south wall is constructed from stone from the building and includes Mediaeval windows, in a different arrangement to the original building. The remaining walls are brick, with the south wall including a 19th-century Gothic window. The clock tower is also of brick, and sits above a small chapel intended for weekday services. The church is entered through a late-12th century doorway. Inside, the church has a wide nave and two narrow aisles. The south arcade is from St Mary, partly dating from about 1200, and partly from the late 13th-century. Above the altar is an iron cross, incorporating an Anglo-Saxon carved stone. Other Saxon carved stones, mostly cross fragments, are incorporated in the pulpit and walls. The York Civic Trust claimed that these were "all the interesting parts" of St Mary. Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as "probably the best post-war building in the city". It was Grade II listed in 1998. References
South Duffield Windmill

South Duffield Windmill is a historic building in South Duffield, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A windmill was first recorded in South Duffield in 1311, when Luke de Hemingborough gave it to Drax Priory. A windmill was again recorded in the 17th century. The current mill was built in about 1800, and was used for grinding cereal. It was in use until about 1930, and appears to have been used again during World War II, before becoming derelict. The building was Grade II listed in 1988. In the 2010s, it was converted into a house. The windmill is built of red brick, and consists of a circular tapering tower with four storeys. In the bottom storey is a doorway to the east and windows in the other faces, and above are four windows in each storey, all with segmental heads. See also Listed buildings in Cliffe, Selby References
Towers Hospital

The Towers Hospital was a mental health facility in Humberstone, Leicestershire, England. The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, is a Grade II listed building. The property, which was originally a home on a family estate owned by the Broadbent family was transformed into what would become the hospital after being sold to the Leicester Borough Council in 1862. Adjacent to the main building is Benjamin Court which is named after the original owner, Benjamin Broadbent. History Broadbent ownership The site chosen for the hospital had previously been occupied by Victoria House (of which the main block still remains), the former home of Benjamin Broadbent, a leading businessman, master builder, and architect, whose works were well renowned across the Midlands at the time. He built a house on the site in the late 1850s, and moved in in early 1860. Following his death in 1862, his son Benjamin Jr. sold the house and 30 acres of land to the Leicester Borough Council for £8,000. The house had to be demolished due to dry rot, and the grounds were used for the Leicester Towers Hospital. The Hospital The hospital, which was designed by Edward Loney Stephens using a corridor layout with compact arrow additions, opened as the Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum in September 1869. An extension to the male ward, designed by George Thomas Hine, was completed in 1883 and a corresponding extension to the female ward, also designed by Hine, was completed in 1890. A bath house, also designed by Hine, was added in 1913. The facility became the Leicester City Mental Hospital in the 1920s. Three detached villa properties, built in the 1930s, were made available to the Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War. The facility joined the National Health Service as the Towers Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in April 2013. Inpatient wards were closed in 2000 after which outpatients were treated in the former male wards, a facility now named the Daisy Peake Building. The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, was converted for use as a Sikh free school in 2014. Several of the other buildings, including the original main block with superintendent's residence above, have been redeveloped for residential use. References
Greathed Manor

Greathed Manor, Dormansland, Surrey, is a Victorian country house. Designed by the architect Robert Kerr in 1862–68, it is a Grade II listed building. History Greathed Manor, originally called Ford Manor, was designed by Robert Kerr for the Spender-Clay family, and was completed in 1868. The actress Joyce Grenfell was related to the family by marriage and often visited the house. Accounts of her time there are described in her autobiography “Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure”. In 1904 Herbert Spender-Clay, MP and founder of the 1922 Committee, married Pauline Astor, daughter of the American billionaire William Waldorf Astor. The couple lived at the house until 1937. Greathed Manor was requisitioned by the British Government during both World Wars. In the Great War it became a hospital for wounded American Army officers. In the Second World War it was used as the Headquarters of a Canadian Armored Division in the run-up to D-Day. It acted as temporary premises for the London College of Divinitybetween 1947 and 1957. The house was renamed Greathed Manor when the widowed Pauline Spender-Clay built a smaller house in the grounds of the original building and requested that the new house be called Ford Manor. The original building was then leased by the Country Houses Association (CHA), which renamed the house after their Founder, Admiral Greathed. In 2008, following the collapse of the CHA, Greathed Manor was converted to a private nursing home, and is currently operated by Pressbeau Ltd. Architecture Kerr was an influential mid-Victorian architect who wrote The Gentleman's House - Or, How To Plan English Residences, From The Parsonage To The Palace, published in 1864. Kerr's influence was greater than his talent; the architectural critic Ian Nairn described Greathed as; "over-confident, making no concessions to the landscape or anything else, without any (...) artistic sincerity, an extreme example of a justly neglected type". The architectural historian Mark Girouard was no more complimentary, describing the house as "appalling" and Kerr's most significant work, Bearwood House, as of a "design [...] as heavyweight as (its) technology". The manor is of stone, and mainly of three stories. Until renovations in 1912, the building had a large porte-cochère at the front, and a winter garden at the rear. Notes References Girouard, Mark (1979). The Victorian Country House. New Haven, US: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300023909. The Victorian Country House. Kerr, Robert (2012). The Gentleman's House. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-04484-4. Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1971). Surrey. The Buildings of England. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-300-09675-5.
Tunsgate

Tunsgate is a neoclassical style building in Guildford, Surrey, England. The structure, which was originally a corn exchange and now forms the entrance to a shopping centre, is a Grade II listed building. History During the second half of the 16th century and into the 17th century, corn merchants conducted their trade on the ground floor off the Guildhall. This arrangement ceased in 1626, when trading moved to a space covered by a wooden canopy on the south side of the High Street, in front of the Three Tuns Inn. In the early 19th century, civic leaders decided to demolish the Three Tuns Inn and to commission a more substantial structure, which would accommodate the corn market and the court of assizes, on the same site. The new building was designed by Henry Garling in the neoclassical style, built in Portland stone and was completed in 1818. The design featured a large portico with four Tuscan order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment, with the borough coat of arms and some agricultural symbols in the tympanum. By 1860, the court facilities in the building were found to be "grossly inadequate" and the assizes moved to the County Hall in North Street, which had been commissioned as a mechanics' institute in 1845. The use of the Tunsgate building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great Depression of British Agriculture in the late 19th century. After trading moved to Woodbridge Road, the Tunsgate corn market closed on 18 May 1901. Most of the building was demolished in 1937 leaving the portico to form the entrance to a new car park. The four columns, which had originally been evenly spaced, were adjusted with the two centre columns being moved further apart, to enable traffic to pass through. The architectural historian, Nikolaus Pevsner, was impressed by the retention of the portico describing it as "a successful case of sympathetic re-use instead of demolition". The 1930s car park was redeveloped as a shopping centre, known as "Tunsgate Square", in the 1970s and a mosaic depicting the coats of arms of Guildford and its twin town, Freiburg im Breisgau, was installed under the portico in 1992. The shopping centre was re-modelled by developers, Queensberry Real Estate, as the "Tunsgate Quarter", between 2016 and 2018. See also Corn exchanges in England References
Garrick Theatre, Southport

The Garrick Theatre is a former theatre, cinema and bingo hall in Southport, Merseyside, England. it is noted for its Art Deco style, and it is a Grade II listed building. History The theatre was built on the site of the Opera House, which had burned down in 1929. It was designed by George Tonge (1876–1956), an architect practicing in Southport, whose work included designing many cinemas. The auditorium seated 1,600, and there was a large stage, to accommodate musicals, operas and ballet. It opened on 19 December 1932, with the play Firebird, featuring Gladys Cooper. The theatre was sold in 1957 to Essoldo Cinemas, opening on 21 January of that year with the film Love Me Tender. After a brief period as the Essoldo, the name reverted to the Garrick Theatre. From May 1962 no live shows were staged. It became a bingo hall in 1963; from 1984 it was a Top Rank bingo club, later becoming Mecca Bingo. It closed in March 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was announced in April 2021 that it would not re-open. Mecca Bingo's lease of the building expired in September 2021. It was given listed status, Grade II, by Historic England on 29 July 1999. The building was put on the Theatres Trust's Theatres at Risk Register in 2022. In June 2023 the new owner submitted plans to convert the theatre to contain a hotel, residential rooms, and features including a gym, bar and an events space. The application commented: "In general terms, the reordering of areas of the building will have a negligible impact on the significance of the building itself, and allow for a sustainable new use of a key structure." Theatres Trust commented that "we noted concern regarding the viability and deliverability of the plans.... The current scheme proposes loss and harm to the historic fabric without providing adequate detail or information to justify it." Approval by Sefton Council of the change of use plans was reported in April 2024. Tom Clarke, Theatres Trust's National Planning Adviser, wrote: "It is hugely disappointing that planning permission has been granted without taking into consideration our concerns, and those of Historic England, who also objected to the scheme...." It was reported in October 2025 that work to convert the theatre would begin in May 2026, and would be completed by the end of the year. Description The theatre, on the corner of Lord Street and Kingsway, is built of brick with dressings of Portland stone and concrete. There are shops at ground level, above which there are tall windows, decorated with bands of an Art Deco design; above the curved corner there are fluted stone pilasters. On Lord Street to the left of the entrance there is a colonnade above the first floor with an open promenade. See also Listed buildings in Southport References
Midland Counties Railway Viaduct, Rugby

The Midland Counties Railway viaduct (sometimes referred to as the Avon Viaduct and known locally as the Eleven Arches Viaduct) is a disused railway viaduct at Rugby, Warwickshire, which crosses over both the A426 Rugby to Leicester road, and the River Avon to the north of Rugby town centre. Architecture The viaduct is approximately 700 feet (210 metres) long and consists of eleven elliptical arches, 60 feet (18 metres) high and 50 feet (15 metres) wide. It is built of red brick, with a facing of Staffordshire blue bricks covering the entire structure apart from impost bands at the tops of the piers and a narrow cornice. It was one of the earliest large structures to make such extensive use of blue engineering bricks. History The double track viaduct was built to cross the Avon valley in 1839 by Charles Blacker Vignoles as part of the Midland Counties Railway (MCR) and opened in 1840. It formed part of the MCR's line from Derby and Nottingham to Rugby via Leicester. From Rugby, MCR trains could join the London and Birmingham Railway to access London. The MCR also connected with other lines at its northern end, making the viaduct part of the main railway route from London to the East Midlands and Yorkshire for the first decade of its life, until more direct routes were opened. Besides a viaduct over the River Trent, the viaduct at Rugby was the only substantial bridge on the route and is the only one to survive in its original condition (the Trent viaduct was rebuilt as two bridges in the 1890s). It is one of the UK's oldest disused railway viaducts. The main line over the viaduct was closed in January 1962, but trains continued to use it until May 1965, serving the Oxford Canal basin at nearby Newbold-on-Avon. Reuse as a cycleway After being derelict for decades, the viaduct was brought back into use as a footpath and cycleway in 2012, as part of a £1 million scheme by Rugby Borough Council and the cycling charity Sustrans, in order to create a traffic free route from Rugby town centre to the northern suburbs of Newbold and Brownsover, and the Brownsover industrial estate. Listing The viaduct gained Grade II listing in February 2000. It met the criteria for listing because of its "age, design quality, unaltered nature and its association with an important engineer and railway company". See also Brandon Viaduct, another bridge sometimes known as Avon Viaduct; crosses the same river to the west List of crossings of the River Avon, Warwickshire References
St James' Church, Romanby

St James' Church is the parish church of Romanby, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Romanby was long in the parish of All Saints' Church, Northallerton; a chapel of ease was constructed in the village in 1231, but it was closed and demolished in 1523. Between 1880 and 1882, a church was built in Romanby, to a design by Charles Hodgson Fowler. It is in the Gothic revival style, and on completion could seat 197 worshippers. George Pace undertook repairs to the building in 1965 and 1966, and also designed its candlesticks and a new cross for the apex. The building was grade II listed in 2000. The church is built of stone with tile roofs. It consists of a nave and a chancel in one unit, with a lean-to vestry. At the junction of the nave and the chancel is a bellcote with a slate-hung base and an octagonal spire. On the north side is a projecting gabled porch containing an arched doorway with a chamfered and moulded surround. Inside, it has an octagonal stone font. See also Listed buildings in Romanby References
Leamington Spa Town Hall

Leamington Spa Town Hall is a Grade II listed municipal building located in the town of Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, England. It is the meeting place of Royal Leamington Spa Town Council and Warwick District Council. History The current hall was commissioned to replace a smaller hall found on High Street which was built in 1830. The former hall was constructed on land owned by The Earl of Aylesford and the Wise family at a cost of £1,900. After the new town hall opened, the old hall was used as a police station and then as a Polish community centre. Originally the plan was to build the new hall next to the Royal Pump Rooms and the adjacent gardens; however the site eventually chosen was on The Parade next to the Regent Hotel. A house called Denby Villa was purchased for £10,000 and demolished to make room. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the mayor, Henry Bright, on 17 October 1882. It was designed by architect John Cundall who incorporated elements of both the Tudor style and the French baroque style. The exterior design included a portico on the ground floor surmounted by six Corinthian columns between windows at the first floor level. Construction was undertaken by builder John Fell at a cost of £14,000. It was constructed of Pinkish-red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings with a Welsh slate roof, partly fish-scaled. It was officially opened by the then-mayor, Sidney Flavel, on 18 September 1884. The efforts of Alderman Henry Bright in promoting the development of the new town hall had already been recognised with an obelisk erected in Regent Grove in 1880. Two of the building's most notable features are its clock tower on the southern end of the building and the statue of Queen Victoria outside it. The statue, designed by Albert Toft, was erected in 1902 and cost £1,500 to create, and was allegedly moved slightly by a German bomb on 14 November 1940 during The Blitz. After defeating Sugar Ray Robinson to win the world middleweight boxing title championship on 10 July 1951, the locally-born boxer, Randolph Turpin, waved to the crowd from the town hall balcony. The town hall was the headquarters the municipal borough of Leamington but ceased to be local seat of government on the formation of Warwick District in 1974. Since 2002 it has been the headquarters of Royal Leamington Spa Town Council. The 44 metres (144 ft) tall clock tower, illuminated at night, has been home to a breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons and their chicks every summer since 2017. Internal features The building has two main rooms, the council chamber used by Warwick District Council and a 250 capacity assembly room. Gallery References
St Peter's Church, Binton

St Peter's Church is the Anglican church in the village of Binton in Warwickshire. History There has been a church on the site since at least 1286. The current church was built in 1875 and has views south over the river Avon, Warwickshire and the Cotswolds. It was built by the Conway family (the owners of the manor of Binton) and mainly paid for by the wife of Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford. One 19th-century rector of the church had stated that the village's inhabitants were mainly agricultural workers and thus unable to contribute to the costs of maintaining the church, meaning he had to seek contributions from the local gentry instead. Signs of the original church remain, however. A picture of the original church can be seen at the back of the current church. There is a 15th-century font and cover and a mediaeval parish chest with three locks and bound with iron bands. Furthermore, there is a stained-glass window in memory of Sir John Greville, who died in 1444 and was an MP in seven Parliaments. He is buried at All Saints Church, Weston-on-Avon. The window depicts the arms of the Greville family of Milcote. There is also a piece of wood depicting the royal coat of arms. It must date from 1714 to 1801 as it includes the White Horse of Hanover. Finally, by the gate to enter the churchyard, there are steps built into the wall, so as to avoid using the gate. The purpose of these was for people arriving to church by horseback could easily dismount, there is still a ring by these steps where the horses would be tied. The main feature of the church of St Peter is a memorial window by Kempe (1915), dedicated to Robert Falcon Scott and his co-explorers who died in their failed attempt to return from the South Pole. The window shows four scenes of the 1912 expedition. Scott had married Kathleen Bruce, sister of the Reverend Lloyd Harvey Bruce, Binton's rector 1906–24. Scott frequently visited the Rectory (now The Grange). Alongside the window is a memorial cross for the Revd Bruce, with a bronze sculpture of Christ designed by Kathleen. The church has one bell, cast by Henry Bagley of Chacombe in 1669. Just to the right of the church porch is the tomb of William Jackson and his wife, who lived in "Springback", now The Old Wellhouse. Jackson provided the stone wellhead known as “Buckwell” or “Lion’s Mouth" by piping water from a well in his own garden. The church supports a colony of nesting swifts. References Sources http://www.binton.org.uk/church-clubs-and-groups/st-peters-church/