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Latitude: 51.1267 / 51°7'36"N
Longitude: 1.3077 / 1°18'27"E
OS Eastings: 631542
OS Northings: 141582
OS Grid: TR315415
Mapcode National: GBR X2Z.7FQ
Mapcode Global: VHLHB.MY55
Plus Code: 9F3348G5+M3
Entry Name: The School Hall Dover College
Listing Date: 30 June 1949
Last Amended: 17 December 1973
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1343819
English Heritage Legacy ID: 177759
ID on this website: 101343819
Location: Dover, Kent, CT17
County: Kent
District: Dover
Civil Parish: Dover
Built-Up Area: Dover
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: School building
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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