Springfield Junior and Infant Schools
SPRINGFIELD JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOLS, CAVENDISH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247048
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Springfield Junior and Infant Schools
- Statutory Address:
- SPRINGFIELD JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOLS, CAVENDISH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247048
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Springfield Junior and Infant Schools
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRINGFIELD JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOLS, CAVENDISH 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:
- SPRINGFIELD JUNIOR AND INFANT SCHOOLS, CAVENDISH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 34625 86938
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3486NE CAVENDISH STREET 784-1/29/152 (West side) 28/06/73 Springfield Junior and Infant Schools (Formerly Listed as: CAVENDISH STREET Springfield County School)
II
Board school, now junior and infant schools. 1875, with additions 1892 and 1897. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with single side wall and single gable stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands, coped gables. 3 storeys; 9 window range. Main block has a recessed centre flanked by single gabled wings. First floor has 6 round-arched single light windows and above, 2 small single light windows flanked by large through eaves dormers with transomed double lancets with quatrefoil lights above. Ground floor has 5 round-arched single light windows. Left wing has 3 round-arched single light windows and above, a stepped triple lancet with transoms and hoodmould. Below, 2 shouldered single light windows. Right return has a single window on each floor, the second floor one flat-headed. To the left of the gable, an angle buttress topped with an arched bell turret with 4 arched openings and a spire with weather vane. To left, a canted stair tower, 3 storeys plus attic, with hipped roof. Single small window on each floor and 7 quatrefoil lights to the attic. Left return has staggered windows on the lower floors. The canted corner has a blocked window and above it, a gabled niche containing an inscribed datestone. Right wing has on the first floor, 2 paired shouldered windows with linked hoodmoulds and above, a central transomed double lancet with wheel window above, flanked by single transomed lancets, all with linked hoodmoulds. Ground floor has a central gabled buttress and to left, a pointed relieving arch with inner moulded segmental arch containing a small window. To left, an angle buttress. To right, a small paired window. Right return has a shouldered window on the upper floors and below, a flat-headed door with cusped headed surround under a segmental relieving arch. To right, a 2 storey linking wing with 3 windows on each floor, the upper ones larger and with cusped lintels. Rear elevation has a central projecting double gable with short central buttress. Ground and first floors have 2 large round-headed glazing bar windows flanked by smaller transomed round-arched windows. Above, each gable has a 4-light shouldered transomed window. Set back gable, to right, has 3 round-arched windows and above, a stepped triple lancet. Below, a single large round-arched window. Right return has 3 windows on the upper floors, the second floor ones round-headed, and on the ground floor a large round-arched window. Single storey addition, to Bolton Street, has single gable and single ridge stacks with lozenge-shaped flues. 2 large gabled through-eaves dormers, each with a transomed double lancet with quatrefoil above, alternating with 6 shouldered single light windows. Above, 3 gabled ventilators. Left gable has a stepped triple lancet with hoodmould, flanked by single shouldered windows. At the rear, adjoining 2 storey play deck, L-plan. Railed deck carried on cast-iron columns, with coped stone end wall. On the deck, a single storey square building with pyramidal roof and single window. To right, 1897 addition, with single storey block to left with stepped coped parapet. To left, round-arched doorway with cusped head flanked by 2 small single lancets, and above them, single shouldered windows. To right, 3 tall segment-headed transomed windows. To right again, a coped gable with square chimney stacks forming angle pilasters, with square caps with side openings. Low unglazed stepped triple lancet in moulded pointed recess, and below, a transomed shouldered triple window with shafts. Right return rendered. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: this school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest in England to be built after the 1870 Education Act. (Innocent & Brown: Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools (etc): Sheffield: 1873-; Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).
Listing NGR: SK3462586938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Innocent, , Brown, , Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools, (1874)
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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