Second War Memorial at Sherborne School
SECOND WAR MEMORIAL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110789
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Second War Memorial at Sherborne School
- Statutory Address:
- SECOND WAR MEMORIAL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110789
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Second War Memorial at Sherborne School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SECOND WAR MEMORIAL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
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:
- SECOND WAR MEMORIAL AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL, ABBEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63730 16543
Details
ABBEY ROAD
1.
1625
(South East Side)
Second War Memorial at
Sherborne School
ST 6316 1/278
II GV
2.
1955 to 6. Architect, possibly Brakespere. Cruciform plan. Stone slate
roof. Pale ashlar. South-west front to Abbey Road has tall wide gable
with coping and finial and 3 layers of fenestration. 2-light window with
dripmould high in gable end; below, a large 5-light, 3-tier window with
dripmould and, just above ground level, 3 small windows of 3-lights each.
Buttresses. In south east front a wider projecting gable; ground floor
links with cloister wing to south above this, a 7-light, 2-tier window.
Buttresses. In North-East front, a fall gable flanked by butttresses;
offsets. A double flight of steps with ramped handrail rises to a half-landing
with balustrading and then exends in a single flight to the entrance, which
has round-headed doorway, flanked by buttresses and with plain entablature.
5-light, 3-tier window with dripmoulded above it, and small 2-light window
with dripmould in turn above this. On ground floor, to north and in recession,
a rectangular doorway with dripmould surmounted by parapet with stringcourses.
The following buildings of Sherborne School surround the greens immediately
to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary and form a group with themselves
and with the Abbey Church of St Mary.
Listing NGR: ST6373216543
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 7 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103830
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 07/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/53309
War Memorials Online, accessed 07/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/72196
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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