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HERTFORD TL3212SE CHURCH PATH
817-1/20/38 (North side)
No.9
and Churchfields Kindergarten GV II School house and school, former Abel Smith Memorial School for
Girls, later All Saints Girls' School, now nursery school
1861, with C20 alterations. Yellow stock brick, Flemish bond,
with red brick bands, moulded stone sill band, kneelers,
copings and dressings, old tiled roof, with blue roll ridge
tiles, stone coped gables left and right, brick chimneys with
bands and oversailing courses. School House at left (west),
with 4 bay classroom, with projecting gable at right (east).
EXTERIOR: single and 2 storeys. House has 4 light stone
mullion and transom window on first floor, projecting square
bay with mullion and transom window and hipped tiled roof on
ground floor, entrance turret at right with 2 light lancet
with trefoil heads above stone pointed arch, red brick bands,
at intervals, across facade.
To right the classroom wing has multi-light chamfered brick
reveals, with pebbledashed panels and pointed segmental arches
above, with stone kneelers and keyblock and alternating
voussoir bands of red and yellow brick. Bay divisions with
projecting buttresses with offsets, 3 red brick bands across
facade, with splayed projecting plinth at base; projecting
gable at right similarly detailed, with a taller narrower
window and more red brick bands across gable above. C20 flat
roofed extensions to rear.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: commemorative tablet in gable records that
the school was built in memory of Abel Smith of Woodhall Park
(1788-1859), who had served Hertford as MP. The school took
the girls from the overcrowded Cowper School built 1841 on the
London Road. The design of the school shows the influence of
model school plans of the period, notably the work of
Butterfield published in 1852 in 'Instrumenta Ecclesia'.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in Pictures: Ware: 1993-: 132; Page
FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 144, 179-80).
Listing NGR: TL3296912482
Legacy
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Legacy System number:
461288
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Sources
Books and journals Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 132 Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 144 179-80
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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