Main School Buildings at St Edmund's College (RC)
MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS AT ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE (RC), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102394
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Main School Buildings at St Edmund's College (RC)
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS AT ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE (RC), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102394
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Main School Buildings at St Edmund's College (RC)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS AT ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE (RC), CAMBRIDGE 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:
- MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS AT ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE (RC), CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Standon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37165 22073
Details
Old Hall Green TL 32 SE STANDON CAMBRIDGE ROAD (west side)
1/6 Main School Buildings at St Edmund's College (RC) (formerly listed as Douglass House 24.1.67 under St Bdmum's R.C College, Old Ball Green) II
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College. Main block 1795-9, refectory building 1805, both by James Taylor of Islington for the new St Edmund's College formed in 1793 by the amalgamation of the Old Hall Green Academy (RC) with the refugees from the famous English College at Douai founded in 1568. John Sone (d. 1795) gave 10,000 pounds for the New College at 'Old Hall as was heretofore at Doway College'. Low wings c1845 for former chapel to N, and library to S linking to refectory. Yellowish grey brick with stone plinth and 1st floor band. Hipped slate roofs. Darker grey brick refectory and dark red brick low wings. A severe symmetrical building of 3 storeys and attics, 15 windows long, facing E. The projecting 3 windows centre carries a dentilled pediment with oculus and is fronted by a C19 3-bay arched brick portico with glass roof. Composite pilasters and a cornice with 4 balls on pedestals. Similar balls on pedestals in the pierced brick parapet above the dentilled cornice to the main block.
The block is further articulated by the 3 round headed sash windows of the ground floor at each end being set a round headed panels having keystones and alternate voussoirs of vermiculated Coade stone rustication matching the three openings of the centre. The upper floors have recessed sash windows with segmental arches but the central window and the penultimate window at each end have also heavy moulded surrounds. Plainer W elevation of 3 storeys and attics with a central pediment with clockface crowned by a cupola, and projecting rear wings leaving a 9 window frontage. Low wing on N of a high single-storey, 4 windows long with steep slate roof behind a high parapet. Gothick style with 3-light mullioned windows with labels. Matching S wing raised to 2 storeys with similar windows. Refectory at right angles to W front adjoining S wing of 2 storeys and attics with a lofty ground floor partly sunken. 6 sash windows with round headed windows below the stone floor-band and segmental headed windows above with 6/6 panes. The rear half of the whole ground floor of the original block is occupied by a stone-floored circulation space or ambulacrum with a procession of painted medieval figures to designs said to be by Fuhrich of Vienna. The building of the college was an enterprise comparable in scale only with college work at Oxford and Cambridge, but far exceeding what English public schools did at that time (Pevsner (1977) 266- 7).
Listing NGR: TL3716522073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161026
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 266-7
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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