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Big School, approximately 50 metres to north west of Chapel, Bradfield College

A Grade II Listed Building in Bradfield, West Berkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4486 / 51°26'55"N

Longitude: -1.1327 / 1°7'57"W

OS Eastings: 460366

OS Northings: 172541

OS Grid: SU603725

Mapcode National: GBR 92Z.2FV

Mapcode Global: VHCZ8.BV1B

Plus Code: 9C3WCVX8+FW

Entry Name: Big School, approximately 50 metres to north west of Chapel, Bradfield College

Listing Date: 29 November 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1289548

English Heritage Legacy ID: 396917

ID on this website: 101289548

Location: Bradfield, West Berkshire, RG7

County: West Berkshire

Civil Parish: Bradfield

Built-Up Area: Bradfield

Traditional County: Berkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire

Church of England Parish: Bradfield

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


SU 6072
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BRADFIELD
Big School, approximately 50 metres to north west of Chapel, Bradfield College

GV
II

Hall with library above. 1872, by John Oldrid Scott in a neo-Gothic style. Flint with brick dressings, lacing courses, diaper work, tiled window heads and relieving arches, plinth, and clasping buttresses. Bath stone dressings. Old tile roof, with lean-to north and south aisles, and end ridge stack to east with four diagonally set shafts. Four gabled semi dormers to north and south with two-light windows and quatrefoil in plate tracery above, except that to north-east which is larger with three stepped cusped lancets. Four bays with aisles. One and a half storeys. First floor quatrefoil window to north-east, and two ground floor cusped windows below. Ground floor cusped window to south-east in small lean to. Four segmental arched aisle windows to south with C20 casements and three to north. Three ground floor cusped lancets to west, flanked by cusped lancets in ends of aisles, and large first floor arched window in gable end above with four stepped cusped lights.

Interior: north and south aisle arcades with chamfered arches, and square piers with shafted corners and moulded capitals and bases. Fireplace to east with large hood.

Listing NGR: SU6036672541

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