MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING PLAYGROUND BOUNDARY WALL TO SOUTH

MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING PLAYGROUND BOUNDARY WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250451
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING PLAYGROUND BOUNDARY WALL TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING PLAYGROUND BOUNDARY WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250451
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING PLAYGROUND BOUNDARY WALL TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING PLAYGROUND BOUNDARY WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, INCLUDING PLAYGROUND BOUNDARY WALL TO SOUTH, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Morchard Bishop
National Grid Reference:: SS 77276 07564

Details

MORCHARD BISHOP CHURCH STREET (north side) SS 7607 - 7707 - Morchard Bishop 11/140 Morchard Bishop Church of England Primary School, including playground boundary wall to south GV II

Primary School. 1872 according to the headmaster. Snecked volcanic stone with Hamstone detail and dressings; disused snecked volcanic stacks, their chimney shafts removed; red tiled roof including bands of fish-scale tiles and with alternate plain and crested ridge tiles. Gothic style. L-shaped building with long main block facing south with crosswing projecting forward from left (west) end. Main range has 2 front lateral stacks. Single storey. Balanced but not symmetrical 5-window front to main block with main door roughly central. A 2-storey porch with low diagonal buttresses and half-hipped roof surmounted by a wrought iron floriated cross, has a pair of Hamstone 2-light Decorated-style windows with plate tracery; the ground floor arch was removed circa 1960 when flat-roofed extension built in front. From either side of porch a moulded drip course is interrupted by the windows but carried round the projecting stacks and the wall batters slightly outwards near the ground. To the right of the porch is, first a square-headed 2-light mullioned window, then a similar 3-light window and beyond the stack at right end is a square-headed 9-pane window with chamfered Hamstone reveals. To left of the porch are similar 9-pane windows either side of redundant stack. The gable end of the crosswing has a large 4-light arch-headed Hamstone window with hoodmould, upper transom and Decorated- style plate tracery. The moulded drip course steps up to the window on each side. At the top of the gable is a narrow lancet ventilator to the roofspace. The roof of the wing is carried down over a small lobby with a diagonal buttress on the corner set in the angle of the 2 wings. The outer side of the wing has a pair of 2- light mullioned Hamstone windows. The roof is high and ornamented by horizontal bands of rounded fish-scale tiles. At the right (east) end a narrow gap between the school and School House (q.v.) has a low connecting red tile roof and a Hamstone shoulded-headed arch. The low mudstone rubble boundary wall to the street includes a reused date stone set to right of blocked central gateway. It is inscribed N... (the second initial is defaced) above the date 1665 and the intials TE.

Listing NGR: SS7727607564

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.