The Memorial Hall

1. SHRIVENHAM HIGHWORTH ROAD (east side) The Memorial Hall SG 2388 7/56 II

2. 1921-5 in Cotswold Arts and Crafts style, possibly by John B Thorp, London firm of architects who made a model for the building in 1921 which survives in the clerk's office. Built of coursed and squared rubble stone and dressed stone quoins and openings with a wide sweep of gabled stone tiled roof and tall end stone stacks. I storey and attic with a SW front comprising a 3 bay half tile-hung gabled end to the it (the caretaker's quarters) adjoining a 5 bay range whose 4th bay is a gabled entrance with open timber framing in the apex. The roof of this main section has 4 hipped stone tiled dormers with 4 leaded lights to each and similar windows to the ground floor. The W wall has 2 polygonal bay windows. Built onto the rear is a C20 cricket pavilion. Inside the main congregation area has a wooden hammer-beam roof and there are several Perp style chimney pieces with oak leaf spandrels in adjoining rooms. Set back from the main road at the Swindon entrance to Shrivenham, the hall occupies an important visual site in the villagescape.

Listing NGR: SU2376788864