ETON COLLEGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1290278
Date first listed: 11-Apr-1950
Statutory Address: ETON COLLEGE
Map
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Location
Statutory Address: ETON COLLEGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Eton
National Grid Reference: SU 96715 77868, SU 96758 77918
Details
1.
1090 Eton College
SU 9677 NE 1/3 11.4.50.
I
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An outstanding group of buildings surrounding 2 courtyards. Mainly red brick
with stone dressings, chapel ashlar.
1441-6: most of School Yard and Green Court, including College Hall (restored
1858) and buttery, Lower School, Headmaster's chambers, etc,; also Provost's house
and kitchen.
1449-59: Chapel (restored 1847, '52 and '76) containing C15 wall paintings. Master
of Works: Roger Keys. Modern fan vault.
1514-20: Lupton's tower and chapel, Election Hall.
1689-91: Upper School, headmaster's room and school office. Architect:? Sir
Christopher Wren. L.H. 4-window section destroyed by bomb, now rebuilt.
1714: Brewhouse and bakehouse.
1726-9: Library and South arcade.
1758-66: 2nd storey of Green Court, drawing room wing of Provost's house.
Vide V.C.H.II, 147, III, 267; R.C.H.M. I, 142.
Listing NGR: SU9648678220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 395470
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 267
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1907), 147
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing