Convent of St John the Baptist
CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319288
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Convent of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319288
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Convent of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
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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:
- CONVENT OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HATCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95140 76233
Details
SU 97 NE HATCH LANE
Clewer
747/8/10013
Convent of St John
The Baptist
II
Anglican convent. Built from 1853 to 1881; by Henry Woodyer; extended 1926 by Cecil Hare; mid C20 additions. Red brick with some stone dressings. Steeply-pitched Welsh slate roof, gabled and hipped. Axial and lateral brick stacks.
PLAN: Large range of buildings arranged around three quadrangles. The original convent at the centre with a chapel on its SE corner built in 1857. In 1873 Woodyer built extensions with a small chapel from the NE angle of the original cloistered quadrangle; in 1874 he added a range to the SW, and in 1881 he built a large a large chapel [separately listed] to the SE. In 1926 Cecil Hare built extensions on the S and SE forming another quadrangle. In the mid C20 the convent was extended to the north.
High Victorian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical west front, the original building set back on left with elaborate moulded brick gable over entrance; 1874 extension projecting on right; pointed arch windows, small gables and two tiers of gabled and half-hipped dormers; 1926 extension set back on far right with loggia on south side and sqat embattled tower inside quadrangle. The centre and south quadrangles have cloisters and stair turrets. At rear [east], 1881 chapel to left with 1857 chapel, with Geometrical windows, in the angle; 1873 extension to right with flanking gables and small chapel in the angle of right gable.
INTERIOR largely intact [although main entrance altered], including joinery, chimneypieces, newel stairs, cloisters and chapels. 1857 chapel has arch-braced roof. Richly decorated 1873 chapel.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.305.
Listing NGR: SU9514076233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 305
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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