The Hospitium of St John the Baptist was the hospitium, or dormitory for pilgrims, of Reading Abbey, which today is a large, ruined abbey in the centre of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.

[2] About 100 years after the abbey school occupied the hospitium, and after the dissolution of the monasteries, Reading town council created a new town hall by inserting an upper floor into the hospitium's refectory, leaving the lower floor to be used by the school.

This was the home of the town's administration for about 200 years, but the old refectory building eventually became structurally unsound.

[1][3][4][5][6] Today the surviving building occupies a rather isolated site, with no direct street access.

The building is surrounded to the north and east by a modern office development, with a small intermediate courtyard.