BOROUGH BUILDINGS INCLUDING GUILDHALL, ROYSSE'S SCHOOL AND GATEWAY AT WEST END OF GUILDHALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048109
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: BOROUGH BUILDINGS INCLUDING GUILDHALL, ROYSSE'S SCHOOL AND GATEWAY AT WEST END OF GUILDHALL
Statutory Address:: BOROUGH BUILDINGS INCLUDING GUILDHALL, ROYSSE'S SCHOOL AND GATEWAY AT WEST END OF GUILDHALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048109
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: BOROUGH BUILDINGS INCLUDING GUILDHALL, ROYSSE'S SCHOOL AND GATEWAY AT WEST END OF GUILDHALL
Statutory Address 1:: BOROUGH BUILDINGS INCLUDING GUILDHALL, ROYSSE'S SCHOOL AND GATEWAY AT WEST END OF GUILDHALL

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: BOROUGH BUILDINGS INCLUDING GUILDHALL, ROYSSE'S SCHOOL AND GATEWAY AT WEST END OF GUILDHALL

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Abingdon on Thames
National Grid Reference:: SU 49850 97063

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/09/2012

SU 4997 1/149 19.1.51 752

ABBEY Borough Buildings including Guildhall, Roysse's School and Gateway at west end of Guildhall

II

L-shaped block, east end of west wing of which was on site of chapel of St John's Hospital. East side modern, modern external staircase on west side. Old portion includes:- Guildhall on ground floor, at one time used as court room. Partly of C15 origin but panelling recently stripped, columns removed and the whole restored and modernised. Raised one storey in 1733 to give room converted to:- Council Chambers 1759. Committee Room, C18 with good window. Roysse's School 1563. Originally part of St John's Hospital. C16 timber framed, with C17-C18 panelling and later plaster ceiling, vaulted, divided into panels by flowers and fruit swags. Modern Armorial stained glass. Repaired 1911. Modern cases at dais end hold town plate.

Listing NGR: SU4985097066

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Legacy System number:: 250265
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.