Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College
Dining Hall, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212323
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address:
- Dining Hall, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212323
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address 1:
- Dining Hall, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
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:
- Dining Hall, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60427 72590
Details
SU 6072
12/14
BRADFIELD
Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College
(Formerly listed as Hall at Bradfield College)
7.12.71
GV
II
Dining Hall. 1856 by Sir George Gilbert Scott in a neo-Gothic style. Flint with brick dressings, lacing courses, diaper work, tiled window heads, and angle buttresses. Bath stone elements. Old tile roof with catslides over aisles and four five-cusped leaded light triangular dormers to north and south. Four bays with aisles. Four three-light C20 windows to south. Two two-light windows to east with circular sexafoil window in gable end above, and cusped lancet at end of south aisle. Triple lancets to west with circular sexafoil window in gable end above, and cusped lancet at end of south aisles.
Interior: coupled roof trusses with double-braced tile beams, queen posts, and longitudinally braced king posts rising from collars. Doorway to west with carved lintel and Greek inscription, and fireplace to north with large stone hood on shafts with carved capitals.
Stained glass: east windows by Wailes; west windows by Burne-Jones of 1859, very strong colours and advanced designs for so early a date.
Listing NGR: SU6042772590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396810
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 97
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 395-396
Frowde, H, History of Bradfield College, (1900)
Blackie, J, Bradfield College 1850-1978, ()
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 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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