Dining Hall And Cloister Walks

RADLEY ST. PETER'S COLLEGE SUS9NW 9/109 Dining Hall and cloister walks GV II Dining hall and cloister walks. 1893-4 and later by Sir T.G. Jackson. Dining hall: English bond brick with limestone ashlar dressings; gabled old tile roof; lateral stack (adjoining bay window) of banded brick and stone. One storey; 7-bay range. Perpendicular style. Tudor-arched doorway left of centre: tall bay window to right with stone mullioned and transomed windows. Other bays have 3-light and one 2-light Perpendicular-style windows: bays framed by offset buttresses which have linking 4-centred arches with brick and stone chequer work in spandrels. East gable wall has large Perpendicular-style window. Interior: tall panelled dado. Corbelled French-style fireplace. Cusped tie-beam roof with traceried spandrels to arch braces. Cloisters: T-plan, joined to west ends of dining hall and chapel (q.v.) with arm linked to Radley Hall (q.v.) of similar materials and 2 storeys; each bay divided by offset buttresses with one-light cusped windows above 4-light Decorated-style windows: 9-bay east wall has central gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway: Decorated-style door to rear. (T.D. Raikes, Fifty Years of St. Peter's College, 1897, p.176; Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.197).

Listing NGR: SU5185099549