The Memorial Hall
THE MEMORIAL HALL, HIGHWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048794
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Memorial Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE MEMORIAL HALL, HIGHWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048794
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Memorial Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MEMORIAL HALL, HIGHWORTH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MEMORIAL HALL, HIGHWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrivenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 23767 88864
Details
1. SHRIVENHAM HIGHWORTH ROAD (east side) The Memorial Hall SG 2388 7/56 II
2. 1921-5 in Cotswold Arts and Crafts style, possibly by John B Thorp, London firm of architects who made a model for the building in 1921 which survives in the clerk's office. Built of coursed and squared rubble stone and dressed stone quoins and openings with a wide sweep of gabled stone tiled roof and tall end stone stacks. I storey and attic with a SW front comprising a 3 bay half tile-hung gabled end to the it (the caretaker's quarters) adjoining a 5 bay range whose 4th bay is a gabled entrance with open timber framing in the apex. The roof of this main section has 4 hipped stone tiled dormers with 4 leaded lights to each and similar windows to the ground floor. The W wall has 2 polygonal bay windows. Built onto the rear is a C20 cricket pavilion. Inside the main congregation area has a wooden hammer-beam roof and there are several Perp style chimney pieces with oak leaf spandrels in adjoining rooms. Set back from the main road at the Swindon entrance to Shrivenham, the hall occupies an important visual site in the villagescape.
Listing NGR: SU2376788864
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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