Big School, approximately 50 metres to north west of Chapel, Bradfield College
Big School, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289548
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Big School, approximately 50 metres to north west of Chapel, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address:
- Big School, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289548
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Big School, approximately 50 metres to north west of Chapel, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address 1:
- Big School, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
- Statutory Address 2:
- Big School, 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:
- Big School, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AU
- Statutory Address:
- Big School, 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 60366 72541
Details
SU 6072
12/16
BRADFIELD
Big School, approximately 50 metres to north west of Chapel, Bradfield College
GV
II
Hall with library above. 1872, by John Oldrid Scott in a neo-Gothic style. Flint with brick dressings, lacing courses, diaper work, tiled window heads and relieving arches, plinth, and clasping buttresses. Bath stone dressings. Old tile roof, with lean-to north and south aisles, and end ridge stack to east with four diagonally set shafts. Four gabled semi dormers to north and south with two-light windows and quatrefoil in plate tracery above, except that to north-east which is larger with three stepped cusped lancets. Four bays with aisles. One and a half storeys. First floor quatrefoil window to north-east, and two ground floor cusped windows below. Ground floor cusped window to south-east in small lean to. Four segmental arched aisle windows to south with C20 casements and three to north. Three ground floor cusped lancets to west, flanked by cusped lancets in ends of aisles, and large first floor arched window in gable end above with four stepped cusped lights.
Interior: north and south aisle arcades with chamfered arches, and square piers with shafted corners and moulded capitals and bases. Fireplace to east with large hood.
Listing NGR: SU6036672541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 98
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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