The Memorial Buildings, Eton College
The Memorial Buildings, Eton College, Eton
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210903
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Memorial Buildings, Eton College
- Statutory Address:
- The Memorial Buildings, Eton College, Eton
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210903
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Memorial Buildings, Eton College
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Memorial Buildings, Eton College, Eton
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:
- The Memorial Buildings, Eton College, Eton
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 96594 77921
Details
SU 9677 NE
1/45
Eton
The Memorial Buildings, Eton College
(Formerly listed as The School Hall and Library)
30.9.69.
II
Erected 1905-8 as a Boer War Memorial. Red brick with Portland stone dressings and quoins, the ground floor wholly stone, rusticated. Consists of two buildings. The south building has a rectangular front with a large Ionic doorway. Wide limestone pilasters above flank a single round-headed window. The outer portions are flanked by pilasters rusticated in limestone and brick. Limestone balustraded parapet with solid centre portion. The north building is octagonal surmounted by a leaden dome with cupola over. Each wall contains a round-headed window flanked by narrow pilasters. Stepped parapet over surmounted by urns. The two buildings contain the Library and the School Hall.
Architect: L K Hall.
Listing NGR: SU9659477921
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/41562
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 05/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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