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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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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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 396810
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Blackie, J, Bradfield College 1850-1978
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 395-396
Frowde, H, History of Bradfield College, (1900)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 97
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.