Dining Hall And Common Rooms And Colonnade N Of The Chapel At Wellington College

CROWTHORNE

SU86SW DUKES RIDE 674-1/17/153 (South side) Dining Hall and Common Rooms & Colonnade N of the Chapel at Wellington College

GV II

Dining Hall, Common Rooms and Colonnade. 1906 by CJ Blomfield. MATERIALS: Red brick in English bond, stone dressings. Slate roof, steeply pitched and hipped in centre, coped gables at ends. PLAN: Large central rectangular plan with cross gabled wing at each end. Colonnade runs along south front and continues west to join with main block (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics. Mostly sash windows with glazing bars. Several tall chimneys with corniced heads. Symmetrical south front (facing courtyard). Centre section of 7-bays. Brick pilasters to stone blocking course and cornice. Over middle 3-bays is large semi-circular carved stone pediment in 3 sections with coat of arms in centre, flanked by figures. Windows at first floor level are tall with one mullion and 2 transoms, and have moulded stone segmental heads. Windows light Dining Hall. Roof has 2 small lucarnes widely spaced and surmounted by octagonal bell turret with slim columns and festoons on base. End gables each have 2 windows on first floor with stone pedimented niche in centre. At corners are pilasters with alternating stone quoins and modillioned capital with linking deep stone band. Attic level has large 4-light Diocletian window. On right end of right hand gable blank section of wall with similar quoins on corner. Colonnade has 29-bays, of stone, with Tuscan columns, moulded cornice with balustraded parapet. Bays 6, 18, and 24 have double columns with pilaster between surmounted by semicircular pediment. Bay 12 has pedimented gateway with semi-circular head and large key stone. INTERIOR: large Dining Hall, with coffered barrel ceiling with circular garlands down each side above dentilled and moulded cornice. East end has panelled gallery. Walls are panelled on all sides to window sill height. Dining hall, Common Rooms and Colonnade form north side of large court. The west side is enclosed by Wellington College Main Block (qv) the east side by the Dormitory Block (qv) and the south side by the Chapel, Porch and Colonnade (qv).