St Crispin's School is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Secondary school. 14 related planning applications.
St Crispin's School
- WRENN ID
- burning-casement-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- Secondary school
- Address
- St Crispin's School, London Road, RG40 1SS
- OS grid reference
- SU 819 686
- Coordinates
- 51.41093, -0.8224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Crispin's School is a secondary school built between 1951 and 1953 as part of a Ministry of Education Development Group initiative. The building features a steel frame with precast concrete panels, which are primarily arranged in horizontal strips, except for the end wall of the gymnasium where the panels are rectangular and arranged in a chequered board pattern in two colors. The school has a flat roof and a rambling layout, with communal spaces located to the north-west and classrooms surrounding a courtyard to the south-east.
The classroom block, which is four storeys high, is situated above the entrance, while the rest of the building is mostly single-storeyed. The four-storey block has deep strip windows along its south, east, and west sides. The classrooms also feature deep strip windows with obscured glass panels below. The window frames are slim-sectioned and painted. This school was the first of the Ministry's prototype prefabricated schools, showcasing how prefabrication techniques could be utilized in multi-storey structures. The design was influenced by the Ministry of Education Building Bulletins, specifically "New Secondary Schools" from 1950 and "Wokingham School" from 1952.
Local climate
St Crispin's School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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