HMS Drake St Andrews Church / HMS Drake Theatre Complex

Heritage listing

Details PLYMOUTH SX45NW SALTASH ROAD, Devonport 740-1/4/174 HMS Drake: Theatre Complex 08/07/98 GV II Includes: HMS Drake: St Andrew's Church SALTASH ROAD Devonport. Barrack master's house and canteen, converted to theatre and associated recreation and service rooms, now partly a church. 1879-86, extended 1892-1912, Superintendent Engineer Lt-Col P Smith, RE. MATERIALS: Plymouth limestone: rock-faced ashlar to basement of theatre end, otherwise limestone brought to course and with limestone dressings; slate roofs behind parapets with moulded entablature or triangular pediments; stone axial and lateral stacks with moulded entablature; louvred ventilator above projection room of theatre. STYLE: Free Classical. PLAN: single-depth plan house at N end with canteen to S side, separated by a courtyard; a wide through passage and attached single-storey cloakrooms at the higher end of the theatre, then a pedimented 2-storey block, plus another block at the higher end. EXTERIOR: theatre over basement, single-storey link building, otherwise 2 storeys; 1:6-bay theatre with pedimented moulded doorway approached by steps on the left and blind windows. Theatre passage and buildings on the right are set back from the theatre. Passage has wide round-arched doorway with corbelled imposts; 2 tall transomed windows right of this with plain architraves. The parapet entablature continues as a mid-floor entablature across the 5-bay pedimented front approached by full-width round-ended flight of steps; keyed oculus to pediment. Building on right is 3-window 1st-floor range with segmental-arched ground-floor openings: a doorway on the left and a window on the right. Above the doorway is a banner inscribed FISHER. Wider 3-window right-hand return has similar details. 3-bay left-hand return of Th

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.