diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e8ff0d1e8f6..a50c08703b6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - The activation layer in the transformer toolkit now can be queried for its output dimension.
 - `TransformerEmbeddings` now takes, but ignores, a parameter for the attention mask. This is needed for compatibility with some other modules that get called the same way and use the mask.
 - `TransformerPooler` can now be instantiated from a pretrained transformer module, just like the other modules in the transformer toolkit.
+- `TransformerTextField`, for cases where you don't care about AllenNLP's advanced text handling capabilities.
 - Added `TransformerModule._post_load_pretrained_state_dict_hook()` method. Can be used to modify `missing_keys` and `unexpected_keys` after
   loading a pretrained state dictionary. This is useful when tying weights, for example.
 
diff --git a/allennlp/data/fields/__init__.py b/allennlp/data/fields/__init__.py
index fa01eac7367..134865afce1 100644
--- a/allennlp/data/fields/__init__.py
+++ b/allennlp/data/fields/__init__.py
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
 from allennlp.data.fields.span_field import SpanField
 from allennlp.data.fields.text_field import TextField
 from allennlp.data.fields.array_field import ArrayField
+from allennlp.data.fields.transformer_text_field import TransformerTextField
diff --git a/allennlp/data/fields/transformer_text_field.py b/allennlp/data/fields/transformer_text_field.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3a64a9425f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/allennlp/data/fields/transformer_text_field.py
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+from typing import Dict, Optional, List, Any
+
+from overrides import overrides
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional
+
+from allennlp.data.fields.field import Field
+from allennlp.nn import util
+
+
+class TransformerTextField(Field[torch.Tensor]):
+    """
+    A `TransformerTextField` is a collection of several tensors that are are a representation of text,
+    tokenized and ready to become input to a transformer.
+
+    The naming pattern of the tensors follows the pattern that's produced by the huggingface tokenizers,
+    and expected by the huggingface transformers.
+    """
+
+    __slots__ = [
+        "input_ids",
+        "token_type_ids",
+        "attention_mask",
+        "special_tokens_mask",
+        "offsets_mapping",
+        "padding_token_id",
+    ]
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.Tensor,
+        # I wish input_ids were called `token_ids` for clarity, but we want to be compatible with huggingface.
+        token_type_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        special_tokens_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        offsets_mapping: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        padding_token_id: int = 0,
+    ) -> None:
+        self.input_ids = input_ids
+        self.token_type_ids = token_type_ids
+        self.attention_mask = attention_mask
+        self.special_tokens_mask = special_tokens_mask
+        self.offsets_mapping = offsets_mapping
+        self.padding_token_id = padding_token_id
+
+    @overrides
+    def get_padding_lengths(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
+        return {
+            name: len(getattr(self, name))
+            for name in self.__slots__
+            if isinstance(getattr(self, name), torch.Tensor)
+        }
+
+    @overrides
+    def as_tensor(self, padding_lengths: Dict[str, int]) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        result = {}
+        for name, padding_length in padding_lengths.items():
+            tensor = getattr(self, name)
+            result[name] = torch.nn.functional.pad(
+                tensor,
+                (0, padding_length - len(tensor)),
+                value=self.padding_token_id if name == "token_ids" else 0,
+            )
+        if "attention_mask" not in result:
+            result["attention_mask"] = torch.tensor(
+                [True] * len(self.input_ids)
+                + [False] * (padding_lengths["input_ids"] - len(self.input_ids)),
+                dtype=torch.bool,
+            )
+        return result
+
+    @overrides
+    def empty_field(self):
+        return TransformerTextField(torch.LongTensor(), padding_token_id=self.padding_token_id)
+
+    @overrides
+    def batch_tensors(self, tensor_list: List[Dict[str, torch.Tensor]]) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        result: Dict[str, torch.Tensor] = util.batch_tensor_dicts(tensor_list)
+        # Transformer models need LongTensors for indices, just in case we have more than 2 billion
+        # different tokens. To save space, we make the switch as late as possible, i.e., here.
+        result = {
+            name: t.to(torch.int64) if t.dtype == torch.int32 else t for name, t in result.items()
+        }
+        return result
+
+    def human_readable_repr(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        def format_item(x) -> str:
+            return str(x.item())
+
+        def readable_tensor(t: torch.Tensor) -> str:
+            if len(t) <= 16:
+                return "[" + ", ".join(map(format_item, t)) + "]"
+            else:
+                return (
+                    "["
+                    + ", ".join(map(format_item, t[:8]))
+                    + ", ..., "
+                    + ", ".join(map(format_item, t[-8:]))
+                    + "]"
+                )
+
+        return {
+            name: readable_tensor(getattr(self, name))
+            for name in self.__slots__
+            if isinstance(getattr(self, name), torch.Tensor)
+        }
diff --git a/tests/data/fields/transformer_text_field_test.py b/tests/data/fields/transformer_text_field_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cecb60e454a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/fields/transformer_text_field_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import torch
+
+from allennlp.data import Batch, Instance
+from allennlp.data.fields import TransformerTextField
+
+
+def test_transformer_text_field_init():
+    field = TransformerTextField(torch.IntTensor([1, 2, 3]))
+    field_as_tensor = field.as_tensor(field.get_padding_lengths())
+    assert "input_ids" in field_as_tensor
+    assert "attention_mask" in field_as_tensor
+    assert torch.all(field_as_tensor["attention_mask"] == torch.BoolTensor([True, True, True]))
+    assert torch.all(field_as_tensor["input_ids"] == torch.IntTensor([1, 2, 3]))
+
+
+def test_empty_transformer_text_field():
+    field = TransformerTextField(torch.IntTensor([]), padding_token_id=9)
+    field = field.empty_field()
+    assert isinstance(field, TransformerTextField) and field.padding_token_id == 9
+    field_as_tensor = field.as_tensor(field.get_padding_lengths())
+    assert "input_ids" in field_as_tensor
+    assert "attention_mask" in field_as_tensor
+    assert torch.all(field_as_tensor["attention_mask"] == torch.BoolTensor([]))
+    assert torch.all(field_as_tensor["input_ids"] == torch.IntTensor([]))
+
+
+def test_transformer_text_field_batching():
+    batch = Batch(
+        [
+            Instance({"text": TransformerTextField(torch.IntTensor([1, 2, 3]))}),
+            Instance({"text": TransformerTextField(torch.IntTensor([2, 3, 4, 5]))}),
+            Instance({"text": TransformerTextField(torch.IntTensor())}),
+        ]
+    )
+    tensors = batch.as_tensor_dict(batch.get_padding_lengths())
+    assert tensors["text"]["input_ids"].shape == (3, 4)
+    assert tensors["text"]["input_ids"][0, -1] == 0
+    assert tensors["text"]["attention_mask"][0, -1] == torch.Tensor([False])
+    assert torch.all(tensors["text"]["input_ids"][-1] == 0)
+    assert torch.all(tensors["text"]["attention_mask"][-1] == torch.tensor([False]))