Warminster School
WARMINSTER SCHOOL, 28, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193680
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Warminster School
- Statutory Address:
- WARMINSTER SCHOOL, 28, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193680
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Warminster School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARMINSTER SCHOOL, 28, CHURCH 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:
- WARMINSTER SCHOOL, 28, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86953 45367
Details
WARMINSTER CHURCH STREET 1. 5411 (East Side) No 28 (Warminster School) (Formerly listed as No 28 (Lord Weymouth School) ST 8645 SE 5/67 28.4.52. ST 8745 SW 6/67
II* GV
2. Built 1705 to 1708 and endowed 1707 by 1st Lord Weymouth (see inscribed tablet over entrance). 2 1/2 storeys, local rubble, irregular with occasional ashlar blocks on ground floor and wider yellow courses on 1st floor. Plinth, 1st floor string and moulded eaves cornice. Rusticated quoins. Old tile roof with coped verges and gable end chimneys. Symmetrical with 7 bays and slight central break. 7 hipped 2 light glazing bar dormers, cross stone mullion and transom casement windows, slightly taller on ground floor; 3 central 1st floor windows with original lead lights. Central doorpiece from a design by Christopher Wren circa 1670s, or possibly earlier still, from Longleat whence it was removed and cut down to its present form:- Bath stone engaged Corinthian columns with entablature and bracketted cornice flanking half pilasters to jambs with architrave overarch, central carved keystone and fruit and drapery swags in spandrels. School set back from road with hipped lean-to to left with 2 ground floor windows. On the right is a 3 storey range in painted brick and slate roof, probably early C19, with 2 windows to upper floors. The interior of the school has a fine panelled (staff) room with an ornamental fireplace (also said to have been brought from Longleat): swagged Ionic capitals, flanking shell niches, egg and dart cornice; ceiling of this room painted by an Italian prisoner of war in 1944. The east front of the school repeats the general design but has a plainer central door in plain stone surround. Small square rusticated piers at corners of garden to Church Street in which are situated a C16-C17 female statue and the fragments of a possibly C15 piscina. Similar gate piers with ball finials to Ash Walk. 16 ft coursed and squared mid C19 wall encloses large space to east, with green house on north side. Dr Arnold and Dean Stanley educated here.
Listing NGR: ST8688645279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312866
- 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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