Main Quadrangle, Library and Chapel at Bancroft's School is a Grade II listed building in the Redbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1979. School building. 14 related planning applications.
Main Quadrangle, Library and Chapel at Bancroft's School
- WRENN ID
- ragged-garret-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green MP: Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1979
- Type
- School building
- Address
- Main Quadrangle, Library and Chapel at Bancroft's School, High Road, IG8 0RF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 404 931
- Coordinates
- 51.61968, 0.02668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Main Quadrangle, Library, and Chapel at Bancroft's School is a Tudor style school building completed in 1870, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It features a large quadrangular group of buildings made of red brick with spare stone dressings and a steeply pitched tile roof. The symmetrical main front includes a central four-storey gate tower with octagonal corner turrets, a two-tier oriel window, and battlements, likely inspired by the gate tower of St John's College, Cambridge. Other windows are fitted with mullions and transoms, and there are tall gabled dormers. Inside the quadrangle, there are cloisters with later glazing in the arches. The library and chapel boast fine contemporary interiors, and the entrance is marked by wrought iron gates flanked by both stone and wrought iron piers.
Local climate
Main Quadrangle, Library and Chapel at Bancroft's School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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