Sandleford Priory
SANDLEFORD PRIORY, NEWTOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1220371
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sandleford Priory
- Statutory Address:
- SANDLEFORD PRIORY, NEWTOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1220371
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Sandleford Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDLEFORD PRIORY, NEWTOWN ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SANDLEFORD PRIORY, NEWTOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47681 64440
Details
SU 46SE GREENHAM NEWTOWN ROAD (east side)
10/4 Sandleford Priory 6.6.52 GV I
House, now school. C14 and 1780-1, James Wyatt. Rendered with slate roof. 2 stacks on ridge, end stack to south and 2 to east. T-plan. West front: 2 storeys. 2:1:1:1 2 bays. Glazing bar sashes with hood moulds, arched on first floor. Plinth, string course, cornice and battlemented parapet. 2 end bays to right and left project slightly, with diagonal buttresses and battlemented gables with pinnacles and quatrefoil panels in tympana. Projecting central bay has raised attic with battlemented parapet and quatrefoil panel. First floor windows to right and left have curved wrought iron balconies. Central doorway with 4-centered arch, side light and 2 studded doors. 2 storey, 5 bay addition set back to left with cornice and battlemented parapet. C.1800 kitchen block to far left, of brick with hipped slate roof and 2 thermal windows lighting double height space. South front has large segmental bow. Asymmetrical east front. East wing: C14 flint and stone chapel to east refaced in 1780-1 and rendered. Parapet, crow stepped gable ends and tiled roof. 3 bays with diagonal buttresses. West front with large segmental headed window and Gothick ogee arch above. Interior: Gothick entrance hall with plaster ceiling and 2 niches either side of door to east. Vestigial great hall, and screens passage with plaster fan vaults on slender columns. Punch's room has dais at north with Doric columns supporting shallow saucer dome above. Oval room adjoining to east with Adamish decoration including wedgewood panels above cornice.Remodelled chapel retains c.1400-20 roof with moulded arched braces and traces of original colouring. Top of C14 arch visible in roof to west. Landscaped grounds and lake to east by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. The priory on the site was founded for Augustinian Canons. c.1200. The house is important for its surviving C14 work and as an excellent and complete example of C18 Gothick. V.C.H.Vol.4. pp.84-87 (including plan).B.O.E.Berkshire.pp.212-213.
Listing NGR: SU4767464465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 212-213
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 84-87
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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