Former Bampton Primary School
FORMER BAMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH VIEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246856
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bampton Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BAMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH VIEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246856
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bampton Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BAMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, CHURCH VIEW
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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.
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 BAMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, 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 31317 03111
Details
BAMPTON
SP3103 CHURCH VIEW
1289/13/10004 Former Bampton Primary School
01-MAR-01
II
National school, now youth club. 1863; by William Wilkinson of Oxford. Rock-faced limestone with Bath stone dressings. Steeply-pitched state roofs with stone coped gables. Stone axial and lateral stacks with weathered set-offs.
PLAN: An arrangement of classrooms in two parallel ranges with a cross-wing on the left [S] end.
High Victorian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey. Asymmetrical 5-bay east front; large gabled cross-wing on left with integral gabled porch on its left, two smaller gables set back at centre and large gabled porch on right; the porches have depressed 2-centred arch doorways with plank doors with ornate strap-hinges and buttresses with weathered set-offs, the right-hand porch with inscribed plaque in gable indicating that the freehold was granted by the Earl of Shrewsbury to the parish; the gables have large 2, 3 and 4-light mullion windows with cusped heads; at centre later C19 small flat-roofed addition. Gabled 3-bay rear [W] elevation, large gable on right with smaller gable to its left and gabled wing projecting on left with lateral stack to left of centre with weathered set-offs; two right gables have large 4-light mullion-transom windows. Similar windows in gables on north side. South side has large mullion-transom window breaking eaves and later C19 flat-roof addition.
INTERIOR: Classrooms with arch-braced roofs.
SOURCES: The Builder,XXI [1863], 485.
Listing NGR: SP3131703111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486984
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in The Builder, (1863), 485
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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