Dulwich Old College
Dulwich Old College, College Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385420
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Dulwich Old College
- Statutory Address:
- Dulwich Old College, College Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385420
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Dulwich Old College
- Statutory Address 1:
- Dulwich Old College, College Road
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:
- Dulwich Old College, College Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33110 73660
Details
TQ3373
636-1/15/233
SOUTHWARK
COLLEGE ROAD (West side)
Dulwich Old College
30/06/54
GV
II
Chapel, almshouses and school, now offices. c1613-19, with later alterations and rebuildings. By John Benson, bricklayer contractor. For Edward Alleyn. Buildings stuccoed in 1821. Tiled and slate roofs.
PLAN: a complex of buildings grouped around a quadrangle. East range of former almshouses, now called Edward Alleyn House. Opened 1619, rebuilt 1738-39; remodelled 1821 by George Tappen, college surveyor. South range of chapel, much repaired and altered. Original central tower fell in 1631. Ground floor cloister and central tower both of coursed rubble added by Charles Barry Junior, 1866. West range was school, now offices. Early C19 and C20 alterations.
EXTERIOR: east range: courtyard elevation has three full-height projecting bays with entrances at sides. Two- and three-light Tudor-style windows with mullions and transoms. Buttresses at intervals. Strings above and below first floor. Slate roof behind parapet with finialled pediment motif above each bay window. Five groups of clustered cylindrical chimney shafts to ridge. Plain facade to College Road.
Chapel: courtyard elevation of seven bays with buttresses between four-light Tudor-style windows. Pitched roof behind parapet. Loggia arcaded with parapet and buttresses. Central tower of three stages with French-style slate roof and iron cresting. Gable end to College Road has pointed, traceried window to first floor between stepped buttresses; extensions to left.
School range: courtyard elevation of seven bays has three slightly projecting gabled sections with buttresses and decorative barge-boards. Eaves cornice to pitched tiled roof. Round-arched openings with doorway in central bay. Windows have latticed leaded lights, those on ground floor single or paired, those above in groups of four. String above and below upper floor. Square, angle buttresses to north gable end.
INTERIOR: of chapel remodelled 1823. Includes font of 1729 by Gibbs and reredos of 1911 by W.D Caröe. Quadrangle enclosed until 1866 with decorative iron gateway, now re-sited (qv). Dulwich Old College, entrance gates and piers form a group with Old Grammar School, Gallery Road (qqv).
Listing NGR: TQ3311073660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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