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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999

Summary from record TR 04 NE 46:

Founded 1432, occupied by 1448, altered 1739

Monument Types

• COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS (COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 1999 AD)
• COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS (COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0446 0546 WYE HIGH STREET (north side)
8/264 Wye College, Entrance and Hall 13.10.52 quadrangles
GV II
College quadrangles. 1893-5, 1901, 1903-6 and 1912-14 (executed 1928) Architects P.B. chambers (1893-5), T.E. Colcutt (1901) and Colcutt and Hamp (1905-6/1912). Ragstone with red brick over, and with timber framing with red brick infill. Plain tiled roof. Entrance: 2 storey range with kneelered parapet gables and projecting central gabled gateway; stacks to end left, centre left and to right. Ten mullioned lights on 1st floor (pairs and triplets), and cusped and with label hoods on ground floor. Four centred arched gateway with label hood, and 3 light Perpendicular style windows over. Right return (the library) with 2 storey brick range with mullioned and transomed lights broken only by oriel to centre left. Inner court: rear of entrance block with exposed timber frame over open timber arcade. Pierced and moulded barge-board to jettied gable with oriel over gateway. Brick inner wall with mullioned windows. Two storey brick ranges opposite (the library, with barrel vault ceiling interior, with gable and oriel opposite entrance. Second count including exterior of C15. Hall range (with C20 bay as also to parlour) and 2 storey C20 blocks, brick on flint, with some C18 with glazing bar sashes, otherwise mullioned windows. Four centred arched gateway with iron screen dated 1906. Dining Hall 1910, built as gymnasium, separating the 2 quadrangles. Single storey, with large mullioned and transomed windows with parapet and buttresses. Interior: cruck trussed and arcaded interior with contemporary panelling and chandeliers and other fittings. Further, later C20 quadrangles and blocks to the north. (See Orwin and Williams, Wye Church and Wye College).
Listing NGR: TR0552146849

Description from record TR 04 NE 46:
(TR054468) Wye College [NAT] (1) Wye College Cloister Quadrangle. College. Founded 1432, occupied by 1448. Founded by Cardinal Archbishop John Kempe. Altered 1739. Timber framed on flint base and clad with red brick and structural flint and red brick. Plain tiled roofs. The original college consisted of this cloister (domestic ranges and great hall) and detached school house and service building (Listed Grade I) [Full archaeological description] (2)

The Museum was used by the R.A.M.C (Royal Army Medical Corp) as a hospital for 220 plus patients, from 01/06/1915 -1918

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.

<1> OS 1: 10000 1980 (OS Card Reference). SKE48134.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16th February 1989, (116) (OS Card Reference). SKE40487.

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