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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Crispin's School at Wikipedia
• St Crispin's School official website
• Wikidata Q7592883

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)