Wilmcote Church of England Junior and Infant School

WILMCOTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024542
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1969
List Entry Name:
Wilmcote Church of England Junior and Infant School
Statutory Address:
WILMCOTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024542
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1969
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Wilmcote Church of England Junior and Infant School
Statutory Address 1:
WILMCOTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WILMCOTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOL, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Wilmcote
National Grid Reference:
SP1639757881

Details

SP15NE
8/27
11/12/69

ASTON CANTLOW
CHURCH ROAD
(West side)
Wilmcote
Wilmcote Church of England
Junior and Infant School
(Formerly listed as Village School)

GV
II

School. 1845, with later additions. Designed by William Butterfield for Edward
Knottesford Fortescue. Lias rubble, with regular coursed lias front wings, and
limestone ashlar dressings. Old tile and late C20 tile roofs with coped gables.
Lias stacks. Gothic Revival style. One storey. Rear elevation to churchyard:
3-window range. Arched plank door in right end has block surround. Single and
3-light limestone mullioned windows with segmental-headed lights. Large dormer
with glazing bars above and to left of door. Large external stack on left; shaft
removed. Small gabled range in re-entrant angle between school and The Old
Vicarage (q.v.) has small window and coped gable. Left return side has 2-light
Decorated style window with trefoiled ogee lights and quatrefoil, and lias
voussoirs. Buttress below. Wing beyond this has large external stack and
flanking 2-light wood mullioned windows with segmental-headed lights. Front
elevation, largely obscured by mid/late C20 additions, has gables. Forms part of
an interesting group with Church of St. Andrew (q.v.) and The Old Vicarage
(q.v.).
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.474; Paul Thompson: William Butterfield,
pp.44,435).

Listing NGR: SP1639757881

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
305374
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 44,435
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 474

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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