Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College

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BRADFIELD Dining Hall, approximately 30 metres to north west of Gatehouse and Bursar's Office, Bradfield College

(Formerly listed as Hall at Bradfield College)

7.12.71

GV II

Dining Hall. 1856 by Sir George Gilbert Scott in a neo-Gothic style. Flint with brick dressings, lacing courses, diaper work, tiled window heads, and angle buttresses. Bath stone elements. Old tile roof with catslides over aisles and four five-cusped leaded light triangular dormers to north and south. Four bays with aisles. Four three-light C20 windows to south. Two two-light windows to east with circular sexafoil window in gable end above, and cusped lancet at end of south aisle. Triple lancets to west with circular sexafoil window in gable end above, and cusped lancet at end of south aisles.

Interior: coupled roof trusses with double-braced tile beams, queen posts, and longitudinally braced king posts rising from collars. Doorway to west with carved lintel and Greek inscription, and fireplace to north with large stone hood on shafts with carved capitals.

Stained glass: east windows by Wailes; west windows by Burne-Jones of 1859, very strong colours and advanced designs for so early a date.

Listing NGR: SU6042772590