Cloister And Upper Dormitory,Octagon And Schoolroom

RADLEY ST. PETER'S COLLEGE SU59NW 9/108 Cloister and Upper Dormitory, Octagon and Schoolroom GV II Cloisters. Mid C19; 1891 by Sir T.G. Jackson. Flemish bond brick with terracotta dressings and string course; gabled C20 tile roof; brick rear lateral stack. Late Gothic style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 9-window range. Moulded terracotta doorway and 2-light windows, with traceried heads and angel stops to hood moulds on ground floor: offset buttresses and crenellated parapet. Right-angled range to front left with similar 3-window range front and finials to 3 gables: to left is gable end, in similar style with 3-storey bay window and 2-light windows, of older 1849 dormitory range. Octagon, 1859, to left, of chequer brick with pyramidal C20 tile roof: of 3 storeys; each face has 2 trefoil-headed lights above Tudor-style stone-mullioned 2-light windows on ground and first floors. To rear of cloister walk are 3 gabled bays of early C19 brick building with sash windows and circular stair-turret: a small 2-storey wing with pointed windows extends to rear of this. Late C16/early C17 barn to rear left, of heavy timber framing with brick infill and gabled C20 tile roof: 8-bay queen-post roof. This barn was rebuilt with additions in 1848 to form the present schoolroom. (T.D. Raikes, Fifty Years of St. Peter's College, Radley, 1897, pp.7, 22; Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.197).

Listing NGR: SU5182499605