The School Hall Dover College Dover, England

Listed Building Data

The School Hall Dover College has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1343819
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
30 June 1949
Name
THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE
Location
THE SCHOOL HALL DOVER COLLEGE, EFFINGHAM CRESCENT
Parish
Dover
District
Dover
County
Kent
Grid Reference
TR 31542 41582
Easting
631542.0000
Northing
141582.0000

Listed Building Description

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TR 3141 DOVER EFFINGHAM CRESCENT

685/2/37A The School Hall Dover College (Formerly the Refectory of 30.6.49 St Martin's Priory)

GV II* Former monastery refectory, later school hall. Circa 1139 refectory to St Martin's Priory, refounded by Archbishop Corbeuil in 1131, with some C13 replaced shaft capitals converted into school hall after 1868 by G E Street. Flint with horizontal bands of Caen stone 100 feet in length. Roof has been re-tiled. Two storeys with 8 round-headed windows to south divided by pilaster buttresses. Windows are shafted inside where they alternate with blank arches. Renewed eaves corbels, but at the east end the gable springs from stones carved with symbols of the Evangelists greatly worn. On the east wall springing of a tunnel-vaulted passage. Internally many shaft capitals which were not scalloped or with volutes were replaced in C13. Four east arch capitals treated with rich foliage and heads. Medieval wall painting of last supper much worn to full width of east wall. A better preserved fresco of a subject not yet identified is reported underneath. (Pevsner BOE North East and East Kent p300)

Listing NGR: TR3154241582