THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE

THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE, EFFINGHAM CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1343819
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1949
List Entry Name:: THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE, EFFINGHAM CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1343819
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE, EFFINGHAM CRESCENT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE, EFFINGHAM CRESCENT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Dover (District Authority)
Parish:: Dover
National Grid Reference:: TR 31542 41582

Details

TR 3141 DOVER EFFINGHAM CRESCENT

685/2/37A The School Hall Dover College (Formerly the Refectory of 30.6.49 St Martin's Priory)

GV II* Former monastery refectory, later school hall. Circa 1139 refectory to St Martin's Priory, refounded by Archbishop Corbeuil in 1131, with some C13 replaced shaft capitals converted into school hall after 1868 by G E Street. Flint with horizontal bands of Caen stone 100 feet in length. Roof has been re-tiled. Two storeys with 8 round-headed windows to south divided by pilaster buttresses. Windows are shafted inside where they alternate with blank arches. Renewed eaves corbels, but at the east end the gable springs from stones carved with symbols of the Evangelists greatly worn. On the east wall springing of a tunnel-vaulted passage. Internally many shaft capitals which were not scalloped or with volutes were replaced in C13. Four east arch capitals treated with rich foliage and heads. Medieval wall painting of last supper much worn to full width of east wall. A better preserved fresco of a subject not yet identified is reported underneath. (Pevsner BOE North East and East Kent p300)

Listing NGR: TR3154241582

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Legacy System number:: 177759
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Sources

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Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 300

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.