Former County Primary School
FORMER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, GAINSBOROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056321
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Former County Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, GAINSBOROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056321
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Former County Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, GAINSBOROUGH
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:
- FORMER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, GAINSBOROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne Port
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 67355 18616
Details
ST6718 MILBORNE PORT CP GAINSBOROUGH (East side)
12/133 Former County Primary School
20.10.81
II
School, now video film library. Late C19. Ham stone squared and boasted, with Bath stone ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof with bands of fish scale between coped gables with finials. I-plan, one storey; South elevation of 5 bays, of which bays 1 and 5 have projecting gables, which are linked by a flat roofed colonnade having 5 pointed arches without labels on squat Norman style circular columns with varied carved capitals. To bays 1 and 5 are 5-light chamfer mullioned and transomed windows with square labels, under small rectangular gable vents: middle bays have quasi-dormers above the colonnade with 2-and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, all under square labels. Rear elevation similar, but with outshut in place of colonnade; slim lancet windows to bays 2 and 4; in bay 3 a pointed arch doorway in the base of a 5 stage tower; having small quatrefoil in diamond lights to stage 2, single cusped light stage 3, ashlar to stage 4 with clock faces North and South under an apron, a wood open bell turret and steep pitched spirelet with weathervane. Henry Hall designed the church school in 1864. If this is it, it was very advanced in design for the date. (EDB Guide to the Parish Church, 1971).
Listing NGR: ST6735518616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parish Church of Milborne Port Church Guide, (1971)
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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