Saltaire School Including Wall, Gate Piers and Sculpted Lions to Front Area, and Gate to South Side
SALTAIRE SCHOOL INCLUDING WALL, GATE PIERS AND SCULPTED LIONS TO FRONT AREA, AND GATE TO SOUTH SIDE, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300666
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Saltaire School Including Wall, Gate Piers and Sculpted Lions to Front Area, and Gate to South Side
- Statutory Address:
- SALTAIRE SCHOOL INCLUDING WALL, GATE PIERS AND SCULPTED LIONS TO FRONT AREA, AND GATE TO SOUTH SIDE, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300666
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Saltaire School Including Wall, Gate Piers and Sculpted Lions to Front Area, and Gate to South Side
- Statutory Address 1:
- SALTAIRE SCHOOL INCLUDING WALL, GATE PIERS AND SCULPTED LIONS TO FRONT AREA, AND GATE TO SOUTH SIDE, VICTORIA ROAD
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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:
- SALTAIRE SCHOOL INCLUDING WALL, GATE PIERS AND SCULPTED LIONS TO FRONT AREA, AND GATE TO SOUTH SIDE, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 13887 37896
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/09/2012
SE 1337 NE
9/154
22/11/66
SHIPLEY
VICTORIA ROAD
(west side)
Saltaire
Saltaire School
including wall,
gate-piers and
sculpted lions
to front area,
and gate to south
side
GV
II*
School, now part of Shipley College. Dated 1869. By Lockwood and
Mawson for Titus Salt. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings.
Welsh slate roof. Italianate-style. Single storey. Three pedimented
pavilions joined by a tower, 3-bay open colonnade with lower rooms
behind. The central pavilion-has central part breaking forward with
2 round-arched windows with console keystones flanked by Corinthian
columns which support an entablature. The tympanum is elaborately
carved with a roundel bearing the Salt coat of arms with an alpaca to
each side and foliage decoration. Above is an elaborate bell-turret
(bell missing) with the carved figures of a boy and a girl and a globe.
The side pavilions project and each has a single large Venetian window.
In the tympanum of each is a roundel with the initials ' T. S. ' with
surround. Deep, bracketed eaves cornice and pediments with
acroteria. A 9-bay, 2-storey wing projects at the rear. The left and
right returns are of 8 bays, with 3 bays to each side of a more
elaborate 2-bay gabled centre. Round-arched archivolted windows, those
to centre with Corinthian colonnettes and single oculus over. Basement
to right elevation due to sloping ground.
Low, rock-faced stone boundary wall to front area. Cast-iron railings
to right and left sides with round bars and dog-bars with spear-head
finials. Two pairs of square ashlar piers to centre with caps removed.
Two large corner piers with sculpted lions by Thomas Milnes of London,'
representing Determination and Vigilance.
The school was designed to take 750 children, boys and girls. segregated,
in the two principal rooms, and infants in the smaller central room.
The school is set back from the road and the front area, along with that
of the Institute opposite (q.v.) forms a gardened square.
Part of Saltaire model village.
D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, 1978
A. Holroyd, Saltaire and its Founder, Sir Titus Salt, Bart., 1873
Listing NGR: SE1388737896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337559
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
Holroyd, A, Saltaire and its Founder Sir Titus Salt Baronet, (1873)
Reynolds, J, The Great Paternalist, (1983)
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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