Churchfields Kindergarten
9, CHURCH PATH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268952
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Churchfields Kindergarten
- Statutory Address:
- 9, CHURCH PATH
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- Date:
- 2000-09-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/03124/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268952
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Churchfields Kindergarten
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9, CHURCH PATH
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCHFIELDS KINDERGARTEN, CHURCH PATH
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:
- 9, CHURCH PATH
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHFIELDS KINDERGARTEN, CHURCH PATH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32969 12482
Details
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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461288
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 144 179-80
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 132
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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