Schola Europaea
SCHOLA EUROPAEA, ABINGDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194452
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Schola Europaea
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOLA EUROPAEA, ABINGDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194452
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Schola Europaea
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOLA EUROPAEA, ABINGDON 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:
- SCHOLA EUROPAEA, ABINGDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Culham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 51465 95454
Details
CULHAM ABINGDON ROAD SU59NW (North side) 2/31 Schola Europaea
_ II
Teachers' Training College, now multi-lingual school. c.1852 by Joseph Clarke, with C20 additions and alterations. Squared coursed stone; old plain-tile complex roof; various stone lateral and ridge stacks. Lead and copper lantern on ridge to left of centre. U-shaped courtyard plan with attached chapel; later additions closing courtyard. High Victorian Gothic style. 2 storeys and attic; 24-window range. Glazed C20 double doors to 2-centre arched doorway to right of centre. Complex fenestration: mostly stone mullion and transom windows to ground floor; trefoil lancets to first floor; gabled dormers to roof. Chapel attached by covered cloister to right: 4 bays with extension and internal re-arrangement c.1960 by Seely and Paget. Early English style. Plate tracery windows. Interior: several stone dog-leg staircases with wrought iron balusters and moulded wood handrails. Some C19 fireplaces. C20 extensions and additions to rear are not of special architectural interest. History: founded as the Diocesan Training college for Schoolmasters. Foundation stone laid on the 28th October 1851 by Bishop Wilberforce. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.566; V.C.H.: 0xfordshire, Vol.7, 1962; p.38-9).
Listing NGR: SU5146595454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248816
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 38-9
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 566
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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