St Bartholomew's Church of England School and Attached Walls and Railings

ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, BARN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203024
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
St Bartholomew's Church of England School and Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address:
ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, BARN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203024
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
St Bartholomew's Church of England School and Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, BARN STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, BARN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Crewkerne
National Grid Reference:
ST 43894 09581

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4309 BARN STREET 876-1/6/20 (South side) St Bartholemew's Church of England School & attached walls & railings

II

School. Founded as a National School in 1847, with late C19 alterations and additions. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar, slate roof with stone copings to gable ends and reconstructed stone stack to right gable end. PLAN: L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; symmetrical 4-window range. A raised parapet above the gable of the central projecting porch supports a rebuilt gabled belfry; planked double doors are set in a Tudor arch with foliate spandrels and shield stops. Tall 3-light mullioned windows with transoms toward the top, one pane above and 3 below, are under a continuous labelmould. Diagonal buttresses to the corners. A carved scroll above the porch has the inscription " Crewkerne National School, erected 1847". The rear wing to the left four 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with cast-iron glazing bars. INTERIOR: The hall to the right has painted stone corbels supporting chamfered arch braces to a roof structure obscured by a suspended ceiling which has large wooden pendants projecting through it. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: A rubblestone plinth with Ham Hill stone coping steps uphill into Barn Street and attaches to the right hand buttress; it supports spearhead railings with scroll supports and double gates to the centre with long/short railings. (Victoria County History: Somerset: Oxford: 1978-: P.9).

Listing NGR: ST4389409581

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Legacy System number:
390299
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 9

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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