The Memorial Hall

The Memorial Hall, built between 1921 and 1925, is designed in the Cotswold Arts and Crafts style, possibly by the London architectural firm of John B Thorp, which created a model for the building that is still kept in the clerk's office. The hall is constructed from coursed and squared rubble stone, featuring dressed stone quoins and openings, topped with a wide gabled stone-tiled roof and tall end stone stacks. It has one storey and an attic, with a southwest front that includes a three-bay half tile-hung gabled end for the caretaker's quarters, adjacent to a five-bay range. The fourth bay of this range contains a gabled entrance with open timber framing at the apex. The roof of the main section features four hipped stone-tiled dormers, each with four leaded lights, along with similar windows on the ground floor. The west wall is adorned with two polygonal bay windows. A 20th-century cricket pavilion is attached to the rear. Inside, the main congregation area boasts a wooden hammer-beam roof, and there are several Perpendicular style chimney pieces with oak leaf spandrels in the adjoining rooms. The hall is set back from the main road at the Swindon entrance to Shrivenham, occupying an important visual site within the village landscape.