The School Room / The School

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

KINGS CLIFFE BRIDGE STREET TL0197 (North side) 13/95 No.27 (The School Room) 23/05/67 (Formerly listed as The School) GV II School, now disused. Datestone 1749 for Elizabeth Hutcheson. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar facade. Single-unit schoolroom. Single storey. 2-window range of leaded cross-windows, with some original glass, under gauged stone heads with keyblocks. Central 4-panel door has similar head. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers, to right, and ashlar stack to right end. 2 stone panels in fanlight space above door, one has inscription," Deo Adjuvante", the other has the date. Interior has dado with moulded rail and attached masters seat and 4 childrens seats. Sawn off stump of 4 more seats and inscription "WD 1779". The school was initially founded in 1745 by Elizabeth Hutcheson for 18 boys.

(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p98; Waller, A.K.; William Law, His Life and Thoughts (1973); Law, W.: Hutcheson E., A short account of the two Charitable Foundations at Kings Cliffe (1755))

Listing NGR: TL0100197081

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0060 IOE Records taken by Roger Ashley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Roger Ashley. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project