The Old Bluecoat School
THE OLD BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303195
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Bluecoat School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHAPEL STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/04996/32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303195
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Bluecoat School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHAPEL STREET
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:
- THE OLD BLUECOAT SCHOOL, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thatcham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 52179 67466
Details
THATCHAM CHAPEL ST. (North side) SU 56NW 2/6 The Old Bluecoat School
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Chapel, now shop. Fiunded 1304 and dedicated to St Thomas, windows altered in C17, porch added in C19. Flint and brick plinth, rendered with stone dressings, old tile roof. 2 bays. North and south windows with moulded surrounds, returned hood moulds and wooden mullions and transoms. Blocked doorway at east end of south side with 2 centred arch and hood mould with square stops. West end has gabled porch with 2 centred arch and hood mould with square stops; flanked by C14 canopied niches and with small blind arch in gable end above. Interior: roof C19 except for one older tie beam. V.C.H. Vol.3. p.311. B.O.E. Berkshire. p.204. Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide. Betjeman and Piper. 1949 p.146.
Listing NGR: SU5217767469
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39623
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 204
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 311
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 146
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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