Spring Hill School
SPRING HILL SCHOOL, A6108
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295968
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Hill School
- Statutory Address:
- SPRING HILL SCHOOL, A6108
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295968
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Hill School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRING HILL SCHOOL, A6108
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:
- SPRING HILL SCHOOL, A6108
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Stainley with Sleningford
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3016272995
Details
SE 37 SW
5338
6/89
24.1.86
NORTH YORKSHIRE
HARROGATE
NORTH STAINLEY WITH SLENINGFORD A6108
(west side, off)
Spring Hill School (formerly listed as Episcopal Palace - now part of Spring Hill School)
GV
II
Former palace of the Bishops of Ripon, now school, with attached chapel.
Palace 1841, chapel completed 1847. Ashlar, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys,
main range with 7 first-floor windows, recessed service block to right with
3 first-floor windows and enclosed yard to right; a covered passage with
doorway in north side links the service block to the 4-bay chapel which
projects at right-angles to the house. Palace in Jacobean style, chapel in
high Gothic. Main range: glazed door left in 2-storeyed porch with diagonal
buttresses, shields and heraldic beasts. 2- and 3-light round-headed
mullion windows with hood-moulds over. External stack to left of entrance.
Battlemented parapet interrupted by small gables with narrow attic windows.
Large evenly-spaced stacks. Rear: garden entrance in single-storey annexe
with cross-windows. Chapel: large 3-light mullion and transom windows with
Perpendicular tracery to east and south sides. Buttresses, gargoyles and
battlemented parapet. Interior: original doors, door surrounds, staircase
to palace; original chapel fittings survive, including elaborately-carved
screen and stalls. Stable block attached to north-west end of main range -
separately listed.
Listing NGR: SE3016272995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331093
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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