CHELTENHAM COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK TO ROAD WITH DINING HALL AND CHAPEL)

CHELTENHAM COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK TO ROAD WITH DINING HALL AND CHAPEL), BATH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386726
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: CHELTENHAM COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK TO ROAD WITH DINING HALL AND CHAPEL)
Statutory Address:: CHELTENHAM COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK TO ROAD WITH DINING HALL AND CHAPEL), BATH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386726
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:: CHELTENHAM COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK TO ROAD WITH DINING HALL AND CHAPEL)
Statutory Address 1:: CHELTENHAM COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK TO ROAD WITH DINING HALL AND CHAPEL), BATH ROAD

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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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Statutory Address:: CHELTENHAM COLLEGE (MAIN BLOCK TO ROAD WITH DINING HALL AND CHAPEL), BATH ROAD

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 94861 21501

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9421NE BATH ROAD 630-1/18/180 (South East side) 12/03/55 Cheltenham College (Main block to road with Dining Hall and Chapel) (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD (East side) Cheltenham College (Main block to road and Dining Hall)) (Formerly Listed as: SANDFORD ROAD Chapel of Cheltenham College)

GV II*

School. Main front to Bath Road, 1843 by J Wilson of Bath; later additions to east. Later Dining Hall and Library of 1858 by DJ Humphris. Incorporates former junior school c1850 by Middleton. Chapel of 1896 by Prothero with internal decorations carried out by Boultons of Cheltenham; stained glass by Louis Davis, Powell (1924) and Heaton, Butler and Bayne; paintings by J Eadie Reid; monument by HH Martyn and Company. Included is the stone fan-vaulted passageway between the Main Block and the Chapel, c1920 by LW Barnard. Ashlar over brick with slate roof. A notable composition in a fitting 'Oxford Collegiate' style. EXTERIOR: central 2-storey, 3-bay main range with attics to outer gables and central tall clock tower, with 5-bay, wings with aisles and clerestory to either side. Central entrance has massive double doors in triple-chamfered, 4-centre-arched surrounds with carved decoration to spandrels and hoodmould with face-stops. Off-set buttresses between bays. Ground floor has 2 + 2 cusped lights in chamfered surrounds and with hoodmoulds. First floor: outer bays have canted oriels with traceried windows, and surmounting battlements. Central 3-light traceried window with hoodmould and face-stops. Cusped light to gables, copings and finial. Massive clock tower has outer octagonal piers and central tall 2-light belfry windows with tracery; frieze and battlements. Flanking wings have off-set buttresses between bays. End entrances are double pointed doors. 2-light cusped windows to ground floor and 3-light straight-headed windows with tracery to clerestory, all in chamfered surrounds and with hoodmoulds. Low parapet to aisles, crenellated clerestory. To left return a tall 3-stage, 27-light window with perpendicular-type tracery to head. CHAPEL: Chapel in the Eton and King's Perpendicular-style

tradition. Stepped buttresses and crenellated parapet, with finials and corner pinnacles. 4-light windows with one level of transoms; the great 9-light east window has niched canopies on the flanking buttresses and up the voussoir. Entrance from school to south side, into chapel passage. INTERIOR: retains many original features. Entrance has vaulted lobby with 4-centred arch to stairhall with skylight, open-well staircase has iron balusters with carved stone tread ends and cinquefoil decoration and with cresting to balustrade. Chapel passage (Barnard) has fan vaulting. Interior of Chapel has quadripartite rib-vaulted ceiling, reredos (designed by Prothero, work carried out by Boultons) with figures of great men who had local connections (Jenner, Tynedale, Raikes). Canopies to rear stalls (all carved) with 4-centred lunettes over (painted by Reid). Carved Perpendicular-style pulpit and sounding board. Monument to Frederick Myers (d.1901) designed by Prothero (carved by Martyns) has tree of life and bronze relief portrait. 2 windows to S by Davis, one to north by Powell, E window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Quadrangle has 4-centre-arched loggia to E side. Dining hall (former chapel) has panelled shallow vault on pilasters to full height; panelling to lower stages of walls; 2 tiers of stained glass windows and 7-light perpendicular-type window to W; 1945 war memorial. Assembly hall (former junior school) has panelled ceiling and canted bay to S. HISTORICAL NOTE: Cheltenham College was the first of the new public schools, originating in 1841 in Rodney Road, these premises were built in the mid and late C19. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 134-5; Little B: Cheltenham: London: 1952-: 114-7; Sampson A: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 25-6).

Listing NGR: SO9486621516

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 474122
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Little, B, Cheltenham, (1952), 25-26
Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993)
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 134-135
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/223439

Legal

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