Comper Foundation Stage School
COMPER FOUNDATION STAGE SCHOOL, HERTFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047076
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Comper Foundation Stage School
- Statutory Address:
- COMPER FOUNDATION STAGE SCHOOL, HERTFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047076
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Comper Foundation Stage School
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMPER FOUNDATION STAGE SCHOOL, HERTFORD STREET
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.
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:
- COMPER FOUNDATION STAGE SCHOOL, HERTFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5310205198
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25/09/2012
SP5305 20/840
1485
HERTFORD STREET
Comper Foundation Stage School
(Formerly listed as St. Mary and St. John First School)
II
Formerly St. Mary and St. John Infants School, c. 1902. W Bucknall and
J N Comper. Free Gothic. H-p1an school with central hall and classrooms
to north, east and south. Red brick with dormers of roughcast and imitated
half timbering. Tiled roofs. Windows throughout have Tudor arches and
single chamfer, heavy wooden casements with all glazing bars. Facade to
Hertford Street : Gabled wings with round coping and three stepped windows.
The centre is of six bays with crenellated parapet and buttresses with two
setbacks. Two large triangular dormers centred over second and fifth bays.
On central buttress a small cusped stone niche with figure of St. Mary and
foundation stone with worn applied lettering. Asymmetrical end facades,
each with Tudor lancets under central gable and plank door with ornamental
hinges to right hand side. Rear facade of five gables, the three in centre
over triple windows. Two dormers as at front.
Interior. Central hall with wide pointed wooden tunnel vault, brought
to seven corbels on each side by small cross vaults above large glazed partitions
which light the classrooms on east, and windows on west. Vault defined by
delicate roll-moulded ribs on arrises and perpendicular to the ridge, painted
brown, dark blue and gold (said to reproduce the original scheme). Classrooms
under tunnel vaults running out from walls of hall.
Listing NGR: SP5310205198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245968
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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