ST MARY’S CHURCHYARD, FRATTON Conservation Area No 16 Guidelines for Conservation John Slater BA (Hons) DMS MRTPI Head of Planning Services (023) 9283 4334 The Ordnance Survey mapping included within this publication is provided by the Portsmouth City Council under licence from the Ordnance Survey in order to fulfil its public function as a planning authority. Persons viewing this mapping should contact Ordnance Survey copyright for advice where they wish to licence Ordnance Survey map data for their own use. Licence No LA-100019671 ST MARY’S CHURCHYARD FRATTON Conservation Area No 16 Guidelines for Conservation John Slater BA (Hons) DMS MRTPI Head of Planning Services April 1995 (updated December 2011) CONTENTS 1:0 INTRODUCTION Page 1 2:0 HISTORY Page 3 3:0 CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE Page 5 4:0 PROBLEMS Page 8 5:0 GUIDELINES Page 9 APPENDIX 1: FURTHER INFORMATION/SOURCES OF ADVICE Page12 APPENDIX 2: FINANCE AND GRANT AID Page13 APPENDIX 3: STATUTORY PROTECTION Page14 APPENDIX 4: PORTSMOUTH CITY LOCAL PLAN 2001-11 Page15 APPENDIX 5: SUMMARY OF EXISTING POWERS Page16 e d - a W n d a ts L o o n d g e 6 N U 1 T C 8 Reigate 1 House F 5 9 L 1 I A 3 E E 5 L l R S u D 0 b 1 E S ta P N 2 L D A O C CROWN N E 3 P 6 7 F 3 67 B L 1 71 A 4 1 1 C 7 5 Sub 8 Sta El 0 1 E T 2 C r 6 1 o C w 5 n 4 B 2 C 4 6 1 5 o 5 S u 7 r 1 t 3 0 66 3 2 T 0 7 8 R 7 74 E 3 E 0 1 C 1 0 1 4 9 r 4 7 4 o 3 5 9 9 F w B T 5 0 4 n 8 2 9 C 1 o 2 u 1 r 1 t 1 Redhill House 15 47 45 2 3 P H 1 2 1 1 1 5 43 41 2 2 4 5 6 5 2 8 9 K I N G 35 3 A 3 L B E 6 R 7 2 T S T R 31 E 29 E T 8 9 2 1 3 1 6 1 8 1 1 1 5 9 5 5 7 1 2 5 1 7 1 3 6 1 1 7 5 T I M 2 1 7 7 P S O 3 5 N R 2 1 O A 3 D 9 2 9 Health Centre 3 2 6 9 3 4 1 3 3 5 3 5 5 1 6 5 7 4 1 5 4 3 7 7 2 0 7 4 5 1 2 6 9 8 7 5 7 7 4 2 2 4 1 N 2 U T B 7 F . M 16 7 I 0 E 5 3 C m L T D O H T T 30 E 4 N 4 H 1 U P A 1 M 3 R 3 O L A R D A 44 C C E 1 H E T 1 3 R O A 2 7 2 5 1 D F T l h a e t s G l e 4 3 b e 2 6 1 Hall 245 Carnegie Garage Library Vicarage LB PH 205 BM 7.69m 247 1 t0 10 243 227 213 209 211 207 249 FRATTON ROAD Shelter 2 6 4 2 5 6 BM 8.23m 2 4 8 PH War Meml St Mary's Church 2 C o C m e m n t u r n e i t y Tennis Courts © Crown copyright PCC licence No. LA-100019671 B M 6 1 7 . 8 5 m © Crown copyright PCC licence No. LA-100019671 T R A 0 3 W O O A D L A N D S T L R E E T V 4 2 8 1 6 24 E 2 R R C O i t 4 y 4 1 A a o f D W P orks 2 7 Alliance House o r t s S m T o u 74 M t h G A i r 64 R l s ' Y S S c 52 h o o l 3 6 R 8 40 O 5 A 3 5 D 1 29 4 OL INDA 8 S TRE 1 5 E b T 7 PH 2 4 1 8 3 1 7 3 2 4 8 2 2 1 3 5 1 El 2 Sub Sta 3 6 9 F 1 O 0 2 4 R 7 9 6 3 T O 8 7 4 3 N 1 5 3 R 9 6 4 O A 8 4 D 0 5 6 5 1 2a 1 6 4 5 1 a 1 13 25 37 47 51 2 5 0 2 9 3 6 5 BM 8.34m SHAKESPEARE ROAD 6 2 7 8 2 5 0 3 8 2 1 1 4 5 2 4 5 6 22 6 24 7 a 0 38 6 5 4 6 56 54a b 9 52 68 LB 1 a 7 1 3 3 2 6 2 9 2 6 7 7 4 9 D 3 A 7 7 RO a 5 RD a FO a 5 7 7 1 7 7 5 7 9 7 b 7 b 5 b 13 25 7 9 7 9 3 7 7 c 1 5 c c 1 0 1 2 4 6 10 24 36 48 62 76 1:0 INTRODUCTION This guideline publication covers the St opposition to alteration, but rather the Mary’s Churchyard, Fratton positive management of change Conservation Area. It is one of a series through preservation, environmental covering conservation areas in improvements and sympathetic design. Portsmouth and providing guidance on each area. It is intended to provide The designation of a conservation area supplementary planning guidance to has a number of direct legal the Portsmouth City Local Plan 2001- consequences, including specific 11. procedures for planning applications, the control of demolition of buildings This report covers the conservation and works to trees. These are covered area of St Mary’s Churchyard, in in more detail later in this document. Fratton, and suggests guidelines to inform property owners and to produce St Mary’s Churchyard was designated a framework by which decisions a conservation area in 1972 and affecting development in the area can represents the first site on Portsea be made. Island used for ecclesiastical purposes. The area contains a public open space, Conservation areas were first created a variety of old listed and non-listed after the Civic Amenities Act (1967) buildings and the Parish Church of and are defined as “……. Areas of Portsea as its focal point. special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.” Conservation areas do not imply an Fratton Road c1900. Note the railings surmounting the flint faced wall, presumably removed for the war effort during the Second World War 1 Reproduced from the 1870 Ordnance Survey Map Not to scale © Crown Copyright Licence No. LA 100019671 2 2:0 HISTORY St Mary’s Church represents both the Reginald Blomfield. It fills the space first recorded church site on Portsea between the old vicarage and the Island, as well as the nucleus of public house (currently the Contented Fratton. Along with Buckland and Pig) which is recorded on this site as Copnor, Fratton is one of the earliest far back as 1867. Another remnant of settlements on Portsea Island and the Victorian era lies behind the retained a generally rural character modern vicarage in the form of until the middle of the Nineteenth “Vicarage Cottage” (133 Church Road). Century. It was an ancient demesne (landed estate) of the Crown and was As urbanisation spread outward, at the mentioned in the Domesday Book. beginning of the nineteenth Century, from Old Portsmouth, the area around The hub of this settlement, St Mary’s St Mary’s changed from a countryside Church, stands as a focal point for aspect to an urban sprawl which miles around. A church, on this site, is continued towards Kingston along first mentioned in 1164, and later, Fratton Road. when it was appropriated with the Priory of Southwick, in 1291. This Clydesdale Terrace was built along original church survived until 1843 Fratton Road, at the end of the when a second “St Mary’s” designed Nineteenth Century and was one of a by Thomas Ellis Owen was number of housing developments commissioned. This survived just 44 which effectively enclosed the area years until the third and present around St Mary’s Churchyard. rebuilding on the site by A W Blomfield in 1887. During the twentieth century, the character of the area underwent St Mary’s was the only parish church considerable change. Fratton Road on Portsea Island up to the Fourteenth was widened in the 1920’s to allow for Century and was still the solitary parish tramways, the terraces around church outside of Old Portsmouth, until Woodland Street have disappeared the Victorian era. and myriad gravestones that filled the churchyard have been removed to On the other side of Fratton Road, the create a public open space. original vicarage ‘Lawnswood’ (now a funeral directors) was constructed at More recently, “Woodland Park” has the same time as the first rebuilding of been created to the east of Woodland St Mary’s (in 1843) and is also by Street, to extend the public open space Thomas Owen.