Facilities and Lets

The ideal setting for conferences, meetings, receptions, photography and flming, special events

Wellington College, granted its Royal Charter in 1853 as the national memorial to the Great Duke, was opened in 1859. It quickly became one of the great national boarding schools. The College is proud of a fine tradition of service and of its Royal connections. It stands in an attractive woodland estate in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

The original buildings, a remarkable Victorian version of French Grand Rococo, were designed by John Shaw in 1854. The Chapel, designed by Gilbert Scott, was completed in 1863. The main buildings contain eight in-College Houses, as well as the Chapel, Great School, Old Hall, the Library, the Dining Hall, the Senior Common Room, the Music School, the Junior Common Room, and a variety of other rooms.

Outside the main buildings, but within easy walking distance on the estate, are six boys' boarding houses, the girls' house (Apsley), the Sanatorium, the School Shop, the Old Gym (now a performing arts space), the Theatre, the Armoury, the Observatory, the Sports Centre, the playing fields, the Science Department, Queen's Court, the Kent Building and the Art School.

The site chosen for the College was in what were then the deserted heathlands of Berkshire, between Camberley, Wokingham and Bracknell. Alterations have been made to the original estate at various times over the past hundred years, but we now have some 400 acres of freehold land. Playing fields occupy over 80 acres of the grounds, and much of the rest is natural woodland. There are many fine trees, four lakes and an area of wetland designated as an area of special scientific interest.