Great Hall of the University of Reading
GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248715
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Hall of the University of Reading
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248715
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Hall of the University of Reading
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, LONDON ROAD
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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.
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:
- GREAT HALL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Reading (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72229 72907
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/11/2015
SU 7272
5128
9/7
LONDON ROAD (south side),
Great Hall of the University of Reading
II GV
University Great Hall. Dated 1905. By C Ravenscroft and CS Smith. Red brick with orange brick window dressings and all other dressings of Portland stone. Plain tiled roofs with four pediment - gabled dormers to each side and parapet - gables at each end containing keyed oculi and flanked by towers with rusticated corner piers with arched intradoses, cornices and squared stone cupolas. North end: very large Venetian window with stone surround and prominent keystone. Datestone below reading: THIS STONE WAS LAID/BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE/VISCOUNT GOSCHEN DCL FRS/CHANCELLOR/OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD/VII JUNE MCMV. Side Front: Divided into six bays by brick buttresses rising to pedimented weatherings over brick panels and carrying on as shallower pilaster - buttresses after main-wing with volute brackets to stone cornice carrying parapet ramped up to pedestals with lunette motifs. Paired arched windows between with stone impost blocks and keystones, gauged heads and very tall sash windows with glazing bars. North ends of both sides have entrances with panelled doors topped by overlights with stained glass, and stone surrounds with double orders of Doric pilasters, triglyph friezes and half-open triangular pediments over. Interior: Barrel vaulted hall with Neo-Georgian plaster decoration. The University of Reading was originally opened as an Extension-College of the University of Oxford and received its charter as a University in 1927.
Listing NGR: SU7222972907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Bradley, S, Tyack, G, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (2010), 457
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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