Main Block and Chapel at Queen Anne's School
MAIN BLOCK AND CHAPEL AT QUEEN ANNE'S SCHOOL, HENLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155905
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block and Chapel at Queen Anne's School
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BLOCK AND CHAPEL AT QUEEN ANNE'S SCHOOL, HENLEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155905
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block and Chapel at Queen Anne's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BLOCK AND CHAPEL AT QUEEN ANNE'S SCHOOL, HENLEY 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 BLOCK AND CHAPEL AT QUEEN ANNE'S SCHOOL, HENLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Reading (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 71762 75116
Details
HENLEY ROAD 1. 5128 Main block and chapel at Queen Anne's School SU 7175 10/498 II 2. 'U' plan of Amersham Hall (1870s) by Alfred Waterhouse for Mr West retained. Altered and extended by Joseph Morris 1893-1896 and again between the wars. South front; symmetrical 2 1/2 and 3 storeys block, red brick with stone quoins and dressings and occasional blue-black diapers. 5 bays. 4 gables, the 2 principal ones project and flank central gabled porch. Coped gables with moulded kneelers and brick block cornice returns. Moulded string over ground floor. Slate roof grooved chimneys at sides of gables. Mullioned casement windows with stop chamfered reveals, brick relieving arches over. Caernavron arch fanlight over door. Porch flanked by tall single light windows, 3 light window over central blind window which contains monogram panel. [? EMM over 86 ? in leafy relief]. Secondary porch at angle of right hand bay and principal right hand gable. Chapel added by Sir Reginald Bloomfield 1893 - red brick with stone dressings and dividing buttresses. Slate roof with parapet to south. 3 bay aisled nave with chancel. Interior of school altered, but hall retains Gothic fireplace and some heating fixtures.
Listing NGR: SU7176275116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38971
- 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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