Library, With Wall and Gateway Attached to North East Corner
LIBRARY, WITH WALL AND GATEWAY ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, CHURCH VIEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053565
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Library, With Wall and Gateway Attached to North East Corner
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, WITH WALL AND GATEWAY ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, CHURCH VIEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053565
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Library, With Wall and Gateway Attached to North East Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBRARY, WITH WALL AND GATEWAY ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, CHURCH VIEW
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:
- LIBRARY, WITH WALL AND GATEWAY ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, CHURCH VIEW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31295 03237
Details
SP3003-3103 BAMPTON CHURCH VIEW (West side) 13/71 Library, with wall and gateway 12/09/55 attached to NE corner (Formerly listed as Church View)
GV II Former free school, now library. Circa 1650. Founded by Robert Veysey who left £100 for its erection "in ashleane worke" in will of 1635. First school master not appointed until 1653. Ashlar, with stone slate roof, moulded gable copings and kneelers, and ashlar chimneys. T-plan, with small catslide extension in north-east angle. One storey and attic, 3 bays. Moulded plinth. Hollow chamfered stone mullion windows with arched lights and Tudor hoodmoulds. South side has a 3-light windows to ground floor, and 2 gables between with 2-light windows, the right gable with blocked window and chimney. Central C20 gabled roof dormer with 2-light wooden casement. Inserted C19 board door between left bays. Gable end to road has 4-light window to ground floor and 3-light window above. Far gable end has 2 2-light windows to ground floor and 2 single lights, both boarded up, to attic.a 3-storey porch and stair turret projects to centre of north side, with single lights in attic gables, 2-light stair window, and door to north. Door is set in 4-centred stone arch with moulded spandrels. Attached to catslide extension is short length of rubble stone wall with pitched coping, stepped up over gateway with moulded 4-centred arch. Wall is early C19 but archway may be re-used. Interior has small C18 fireplace in east bay, with moulded wooden architrave and dentil cornice. (Country Life: July 26th 1946; Reverend J.A. Giles: History of the Parish and Town of Bampton, 1848)
Listing NGR: SP3129503237
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Giles, JA, History of the Parish and Town of Bampton, (1848)
Country Life in 26 July, (1946)
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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