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St Crispin's School

A Grade II Listed Building in Wokingham, Wokingham

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Latitude: 51.4109 / 51°24'39"N

Longitude: -0.8224 / 0°49'20"W

OS Eastings: 481996

OS Northings: 168647

OS Grid: SU819686

Mapcode National: GBR D7R.GWY

Mapcode Global: VHDX2.PSLR

Plus Code: 9C3XC56H+92

Entry Name: St Crispin's School

Listing Date: 30 March 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1238550

English Heritage Legacy ID: 41799

ID on this website: 101238550

Location: Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40

County: Wokingham

Civil Parish: Wokingham

Built-Up Area: Wokingham

Traditional County: Berkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire

Church of England Parish: Wokingham

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


WOKINGHAM
BERKSHIRE
WOKINGHAM LONDON ROAD
SU 86 NW
1886/10/10001 St Crispin's School
II
Secondary school. 1951-53. Ministry of Education Development
Group. Steel frame with precast concrete panels, mostly
horizontal strips, but on end wall of gymnasium panels of
rectangular shape and in two colours, arranged in chequered
board fashion. 3' 4" grid. Flat roof. Rambling plan with
communal spaces to north-west and classrooms around a
courtyard to south-east. 4 storey classroom block above
entrance. The remainder largely single storeyed. 4 storey
block has deep strip windows along south, east and west sides.
Classrooms also with deep strip windows with obscured glass
panels below windows. Slim-sectioned painted window frames.
The first of the Ministry's prototype prefabricated schools,
it demonstrated how prefabrication techniques could be
applied to multi-storey buildings.
Ministry of Education Building Bulletins:- New Secondary
Schools (1950) and Wokingham School (1952).


Listing NGR: SU8199668647

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