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Remembered Today:

Rifle Brigade Barracks, Winchester


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On 28/10/2017 at 21:02, edwin astill said:

 

"CHRIST CHURCH, Christ Church Road.  1861 by Ewan Christian.  With a SE tower and broach-spire and a polygonal apse.   Wide interior.  Low round marble piers with naturalistic capitals.  Cinquefoil clerestory."    Err  ... that's all Pevsner has to say folks.

 

Edwin

 

I've got a copy of the reworked Pevsner work...The Buildings of England series.

HAMPSHIRE: Winchester and the North by Michael Bullen, john Crook, Rodney Hubbuck and Nikolas Pevsner (pub. Yale University Press 2010)

 

"CHRIST CHURCH, Christ Church Road. 1859-61 by Ewan Christian. Quite large and serious High Victorian E.E. Prominent SE tower and stone broach spire, completed in 1904, and polygonal apse. Wide interior, reordered in 1995-7. Low round piers of Devonshire marble with naturalistic capitals, cinquefoiled clerestory and large w window with plate tracery. - STAINED GLASS in the apse, colourful with symbols and geometric patterns. Possibly by Heaton, Butler & Bayne.

 

With the Rifle Depot reopening in 1904, the same year as the completion of the spire, the date of the picture on the PC in the OP must be 1904.

 

Regards

 

Alan.

 

 

 

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On 05/09/2013 at 10:38, spof said:

not much has changed so even a 30 year old photo at the time was still relevant.

Glen

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Whilst it looks like not much has changed, the block in the background is the original 1855 Officer's Mess built in a yellow brick. Built on the Castle Ditch, it always suffered from subsidence and was demolished in 1962 when the depot was closed for refurbishment. The building was reconstructed in the 1990s by the Architect Huw Thomas as close to the original form as possible. Huw told me himself that he hated the yellow bricks of the original and had the new block built in red bricks matching the other Ingress Bell buildings from 1904.

 

This scene above cannot be dated before the re-opening in 1904 as the site never looked like this before the 1894 fire. It's a very common picture on postcards and I would suggest that it actually is the reopening of the Rifle Depot 1904 and the men have been specially turned out for this occasion.

 

Below are pictures of the 1962 Sergeant's Mess built on the site of the 1855 Officer's Mess (taken 1995) and the rebuilding of the original in 1996. Note the spire in the background.

 

Regards

 

Alan.

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1996.JPG

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Probably a good place to post this...one of Winchester's hidden gems. Well worth a visit if you're near Winchester.

 

My photo of the Long Block taken in October 2017.

 

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