Queens College
QUEENS COLLEGE, TRULL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1276273
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Queens College
- Statutory Address:
- QUEENS COLLEGE, TRULL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1276273
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Queens College
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEENS COLLEGE, TRULL ROAD
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:
- QUEENS COLLEGE, TRULL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST2174423101
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/04/2016
ST 22 SW 3/163
TRULL ROAD (West Side)
Queens College
II*
School. 1845-6, by James Wilson of Bath and London, as the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution, Taunton. Large symmetrical Tudor Gothic building with tower rising in centre and wings coming forward to right and left. 2 storeys with 3 storeys in centre. Ashlar. Slate roofs. Parapets to left and right. Gable ends with paired polygonal stacks in centre flanking the tower. The tower has crenellated parapet, panelled frieze, string courses, corner buttresses and rectangular traceried bell openings. 4 light oriel over entrance has crenellated top and ogee dripmoulds to windows. 2 storey bays to left and right under gables, openwork parapets at 2nd floor level. Main front has buttresses with setoffs and finials rising through parapets. 1st floor windows have continuous dripmoulds and recessed panels between storeys. Ends of main gabled wings have very large mullioned and transomed windows with traceried oculi above. Diagonal buttresses with finials. Individual lights of windows have curved heads and marginal glazing bars.
INTERIOR: Many of the original interior features remain, including an open-well staircase with a Gothic arcaded balustrade and panelled soffit, moulded ceiling beams with bosses at the intersections, doors with arched panels and the ‘Great Hall’ [former schoolroom] with wall shafts, moulded intersecting ceiling beams with bosses and a gallery at one end with an arcaded panelled front.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 315. Channon, H.J, History of Queen`s College Taunton.
Listing NGR: ST2174423101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Buildings of England, (), 315
Channon, H.J, History of Queen's College Taunton, ()
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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