Countess Gytha County Primary School (Original Building Only) With South Boundary Wall and Railings
COUNTESS GYTHA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY) WITH SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET, QUEEN CAMEL, BA22 7NH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039614
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Countess Gytha County Primary School (Original Building Only) With South Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTESS GYTHA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY) WITH SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET, QUEEN CAMEL, BA22 7NH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039614
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Countess Gytha County Primary School (Original Building Only) With South Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTESS GYTHA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY) WITH SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET, QUEEN CAMEL, BA22 7NH
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTESS GYTHA COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY) WITH SOUTH BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET, QUEEN CAMEL, BA22 7NH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Queen Camel
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5968924996
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 September 2023 to remove duplicated source and to reformat text to current standards.
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/03/2017.
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QUEEN CAMEL CP
HIGH STREET (West side)
Countess Gytha County Primary School (original building only) with south boundary wall and railings
(Formerly listed as Countess Gwytha County Primary School (original building only) with south boundary wall and railings.)
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School. Opened 1873, the gift of Capt Harvey St John Mildmay, lord of the manor. Local lias stone cut and squared with Ham stone dressings; plain clay tile roof between coped gables; brick chimney stacks on stone bases having offsets. In a typical Victorian early Gothic style, well detailed. Single storey, five bays symmetrical south facade, of which bay three has full height gable crowned with bell-turret, and bays two and four have projecting porches: bays one and five have three-light shoulder-arched chamfer mullioned windows without labels, plain glazed; bays two and four gabled porches having plain chamfered pointed arched doorways with boarded doors, set in gables simple stone plaques inscribed: BOYS SCHOOL and GIRLS SCHOOL respectively; low trefoil cusped circular lights to sides of each doorway: bay three has a taller three-light plate tracery style window with three circle head, in plain chamfered pointed arched recess without label, diamond leaded, with external ferramenta; above a quatrefoil light, and to sides two carved panels with shields, one presumably the Mildmay Arms, the other the St Andrew's cross for the Diocese of Wells; gable surmounted by standard type bell turret - fluted caps to square columns carrying gablet with wrot iron cross finial. To east and west gables pairs two-light lancets with circle over in pointed arched recesses with quatrefoil windows set over, having carvings in cusping.
Sundry additions to rear, north and elsewhere on site, not of special interest. Along south boundary, about three metres from school building, the south boundary wall; lias and Ham stone wall, plinthed and with shaped coping, about 0.75 metre high, with ashlar piers at ends and to gateways opposite each doorway: capping the walls are two simple horizontal square rod-rails set with braced uprights at about one metre intervals which have twist points and wing barbs. The whole very much a "textbook" design of its date, in very prominent part of the village opposite the church.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431109
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Moore, G, Queen Camel Our Royal Heritage, (1984)
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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