Museum Block

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE 1.

5407 Museum Block SU 1868 5/118 II GV 2.

1882-3. Architects A E Street ant A W Blomfield (executing a design of 1881 by G E Street, who had died in the meanwhile). Red brick. Hipped tile roof with balustraded platform. Brick chimneys with cornicing and arcuated panelling.

2 storeys and attics. Elaborately carved wood modillion eaves cornice. 2 lower flanking blocks. 2-5-2 ranges of sashes with glazing bars and moulded brick jambs. Moulded brick aedicule with scrolled broken pediment in centre of ground floor. 2 elaborate wooden oriels in mid-C17 manner, added by Edwin H Crocker in later 188O's. 3 attic dormers with casements and glazing bars, 2 with segmental, 1 with triangular pediments. Rusticated brick quoins.

C House, B House, The Musuem Block, The Arcade, Tge Bradleian Building, The North Block, the Porter's Lodge, gates and railings, the Chapel, and A house form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1845668626

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1287 IOE Records taken by Hilary Mack; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mrs Hilary Mack. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project