Jessop Stand, Gloucester County Cricket Club

Gloucester County Cricket Club commissioned BGP McConaghy Architects to design a new stand to replace the former Jessop Tavern. The new stand provides around 800 permanent seats for spectators and includes new bars, social areas and the Princess Diana suite, which will allow the Club to properly display the important collection of memorabilia in an educational facility utilising the very latest interactive hands-on equipment.

The structure, steel framed with precast concrete terrace units and a light fabric tent roof, was constructed between the end of 1998 and start of the 1999 season, ready for the Cricket World Cup. It gives the ground a welcome air of cricketing festivity, set, as it is, against the rather somber and institutional backdrop of the former Muller Orphanage.