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SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING HALL COURT AND CHAPEL COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1106237
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING HALL COURT AND CHAPEL COURT
Statutory Address:: SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING HALL COURT AND CHAPEL COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1106237
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING HALL COURT AND CHAPEL COURT
Statutory Address 1:: SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING HALL COURT AND CHAPEL COURT

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.

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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:: SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING HALL COURT AND CHAPEL COURT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 44988 58679

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SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE 1. 942 The Buildings surrounding Hall Court and Chapel Court TL 4458 NE 3/291 TL 4558 NW 4/291 26.4.50. I 2. The main buildings of the College were built in the year 1595-8 by Ralph Symons and formed three sides of an open court. In circa 1628 a second and detached block of buildings was built parallel to and to the South of Hall Court. This range is at present joined to Hall Court by the Chapel and ante-Chapel of 1780, thus forming Chapel Court also open to the street on the West. The exterior of all those buildings was completely altered into the Gothic taste by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville in 1821-33. Hall Court 1595-8. East Range with the Hall, the rest being three storeys, partly with attics. The West side is symmetrical with a two storey stone porch in the centre with three archways. Two and three-light windows with square heads. Turrets and battlements. The interior of the hall was refitted 1747-50 when a plaster ceiling was inserted, the original timber roof survives above it. The moulded panelling is also of 1750, as is the screen which is Roman Doric and of three unequal bays divided by pilasters. The staircase is also of this date. The Master's Lodge contains fittings of different periods, the Dining room has mid C18 fielded panelling and early C19 heraldic glass in the bay window. There is also more C18 panelling and a number of C19 marble fireplaces. The Taylor library has the original wallcases and fireplace of the Wyatville alterations in 1821-3. North Range Late C16, heightened and a modelled in 1831-2 by Wyatville, the cloister on the North wall was added by J L Pearson in 1890 (see Cloister Court). One, two and three light windows. Four-centred doorways. Embattled parapet and stepped gables. Stone oriel window of two lights on the West end. Internally, the Fellows' Palour has mid-C18 fielded panelling and plasterwork. There are several other panelled rooms, with some of circa 1600, some of C18. The staircases are early Cl9. South Range As above, late C16, remodelled 1831-2. Wyatville completely rebuilt the West end as a Gatehouse, ashlar, three storeys. Three archways with four-centred openings, ribbed vaulted ceiling in the Gatehall. Three-sided oriels on the first floor. Early C19 oak gate. The rest of the range is of three storeys and attics with an embattled and gabled parapet. The interior has few ancient features, one room of circa 1600 panelling and two with mid C18 fielded panelling. Chapel Court East Range. 1776 by James Essex, but entirely remodelled in the Gothic style by Wyatville in 1833 to match the rest. The Chapel was extended by T H Lyon in 1910-12. The front to the Court is symmetrical in seven bays, with the central three accentuated with pinnacles and the central one set slightly forward with a projecting porch; this bay is ashlar faced. The windows are of two transomed lights in four-centred openings. The Chapel fittings are entirely C20 except for a few monuments, and the fine altarpiece by G B Pittoni. All the Library woodwork is of 1776 and probably designed by James Essex. South Range, Sir Francis Clarke's Range. 1628, remodelled by Wyatville in 1833 and completely gutted in the restoration of 1970. (RCHM.)

Listing NGR: TL4498858679

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Legacy System number:: 47263
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Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)

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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.