Village Hall

KELMSCOTT SU2499-2599 10/68 Village Hall - II

Village hall. 1934 (datestone) to design by Ernest Gimson (d.1919). Regularly coursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins; stone slate roof. L-plan. One storey with attic to projecting gabled range on right. Main range: square-headed plank double door to far left under bracketed flat-pedimented stone hood. 3-light mullion windows with dripstones to centre and right. Projecting range to right has 4-light mullion window with dripstone and narrow round-headed rectangular slit opening to apex. Left return has similar doorway to main range in angle to left with straight-cut stops to chamfered lintel; flat stone hood supported by stone corner post to right with stone bench attached to right. 4-light mullion window with dripstone above bench, all windows with leaded lights. Stone inscribed "WH/1834-1934" at ground level to front gable. Right return has battered external lateral stack with 2 attached and rebated shafts; integral end stack to right of main range. Lower L-shaped range attached to right of main range. A public appeal for funds to build the village hall was launched in 1928 and the building was opened by George Bernard Shaw in 1934. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp666-7; A.R. Dufty: Kelmscott, An Illustrated Guide: (London, The Society of Antiquaries, 1984), p30) [2363]

Listing NGR: SU2493799221