Trinity College

TRINITY COLLEGE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204635
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Trinity College
Statutory Address:
TRINITY COLLEGE, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204635
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:
Trinity College
Statutory Address 1:
TRINITY COLLEGE, CHURCH STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TRINITY COLLEGE, CHURCH STREET

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Stratford-upon-Avon
National Grid Reference:
SP 19942 54612

Details

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP1954NE CHURCH STREET 604-1/9/57 (West side) 25/10/51 Trinity College (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (West side) Trinity College School)

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House, school 1872-1908, now flats. c1720; top floor and porch added 1872. For Thomas Rawlins. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped slate with brick rear stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 9-window range. Plain ashlar plinth and narrow band over 1st floor, rusticated pilasters to ends and flanking 3-window pedimented centre, and top cornice. Porch with brick pilasters and ashlar entablature with inscription: COLLEGIUM SANCTAE ET/ INDIVIDUAE TRINITATIS/ AD MDCCCLXXII; round-headed entrance with archivolt and paired half-glazed doors, small return lights and 8-fielded-panel inner door. Windows have sills and brick aprons, those to ground and 1st floors with rubbed brick flat arches and keys over 12-pane sashes, central 1st-floor window with shouldered and eared architrave and key; 2nd-floor windows have ashlar lintels over 9-pane sashes, the aprons are a pre-1872 feature. Pediment has brick tympanum with ashlar plaque recording founding of Trinity College. Left return similar, with 2-storey canted bay window; rear has gabled wing to left of pedimented wing. INTERIOR: hall has exposed timber-framing to left; open-well staircase to rear left has cut string with moulded tread ends, column-on-vase balusters, moulded ramped handrail, panelled newel to foot and fielded-panel dado; dogleg stair to rear right has moulded string and handrail, turned balusters and square newels with ball finials; some 1st-floor rooms noted as having fielded panelling. HISTORICAL NOTE: Trinity College was founded by the vicar, Dr JD Collis, in 1872 and closed in 1904 after which it was used as an army school until 1908; Marie Corelli of Mason Croft (qv) converted the dining room into a music room in 1907. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 419; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 26-7).

Listing NGR: SP1994254612

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Legacy System number:
366206
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Sources

Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 26-7
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 419

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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