Former Magnus School and Adjoining Headmaster's House and English School

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NEWARK ON TRENT

SK8053NW APPLETON GATE 619-1/9/23 (South East side) 29/09/50 Former Magnus School and adjoining Headmaster's house & English School (Formerly Listed as: APPLETON STREET Magnus School (Education Offices)) (Formerly Listed as: NEWARK APPLETON STREET Museum (formerly part of Magnus School))

GV II*

Former grammar school and adjoining headmaster's house and English School, now the District Education Office and Newark Museum. Founded 1529 by the Rev. Thomas Magnus and built 1532. Headmaster's house 1817 by John Sadler Shepherd. English School 1835. Addition 1835, raised 1902. Restored 1912. Former grammar school, coursed rubble and brick with ashlar dressings, and timber box framing with rendered nogging and plain tile roof. Set back street front, to right of Headmaster's house, has a 3-light mullioned window and to its right a single light. Below, reset chamfered segmental pointed street gateway with 2-leaf fielded panelled door. Above it, a cove-cornered tablet inscribed "This Grammar School was founded by the Revd. Thomas Magnus 1529". To its left, a blocked Tudor arched doorway with hood mould. Rear range, formerly main hall, has plinth and quoins. 2 storeys plus attics; 7 window range of cross mullioned and single light windows, all chamfered. Above, 4 raking dormers, the inner pair with 3 lights, the outer with 2. Below, to left, C16 segmental pointed arch with hood mould and renewed weatherstripped door. To its right, a cross mullioned window and a smaller mullioned window, both chamfered. North east gable has a restored gabled C16 chimney stack, brick and stone with slated flanks, quoins and crowstepped gable with kneelers. 3 restored octagonal coped shafts with traceried panels. Interior has at the north east end of the main hall a box-framed overhanging room with arch braces. Below it, to north west, a C16 elliptical headed doorway. Cross beam ceiling. At the south west end, a framed newel winder stair and a Tudor arched stone doorcase. Butt purlin principal rafter roof with arched collars. Headmaster's house, fronting the street, brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Plinth, first and second floor bands, wooden eaves cornice, coped parapet. Windows have rubbed brick heads. 3 storeys; 5 window range of glazing bar sashes, the central ones round headed and projecting under a pediment. Above, 5 similar smaller windows. Moulded central doorcase with pilasters and open pediment on curved brackets. Fielded 6-panel door with fanlight, flanked by 2 sashes. Left gable has a fielded 6-panel door with overlight and segmental head, and mainly late C20 fenestration. Interior has central stair well with enriched cornice on first floor and wooden cantilever stair with stick balusters and ramped scrolled handrail. Moulded doorcase with cornice and paterae. Left front room has similar doorcases and marble fireplace with Tuscan columns. Open well winder rear stair with stick balusters. Single storey English School, brick with hipped pantile roof, has half-round dentillated eaves and single gable and single side wall stacks. North west end, to street, has off-centre porch, c1912, with shaped coped gable, crest and ball finials. To its left, 4 small casements. North east side has a central lean-to projection flanked by 2 segment headed glazing bar sashes. South west side has 5 similar windows and to their right, a blocked door. Interior has deep coved cornice with latticed ventilators. North east side has elliptical arched master's alcove with fluted pilasters and moulded keystone. 2 storey addition, to south east, brick with pyramidal pantile roof, has plinth, first floor band, second floor sill band and segment headed windows. South east front has 2 glazing bar sashes and between them a datestone, 1902. Below, central chamfered round headed doorway with blank fanlight and fielded panelled door, flanked by single round headed sashes with Gothic glazing bars. Over the door an inscribed datestone, 1835. South west side has 2 glazing bar sashes on each floor, the upper right one blank. North east side has similar fenestration with both upper windows blank. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 194).

Listing NGR: SK8004253903

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Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 194

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