Church Cottage Former School and School House Parish Room
CHURCH COTTAGE, 94, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318123
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage Former School and School House Parish Room
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, 94, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318123
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage Former School and School House Parish Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, 94, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- PARISH ROOM, CHURCH STREET
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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, 94, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH ROOM, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gamlingay
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24160 52285
Details
GAMLINGAY CHURCH STREET TL 2452 (South side) 12/67 Parish Room and 94 (Church Cottage) (Former School and School House)
GV II
School and schoolhouse, now parish room and cottage. 1848. Patterned brickwork of red brick stretchers and yellow brick headers. Slate roof. Internal stacks. Cottage is two storeys. Lozenge shaped leaded lights and ovolo mullions to two first floor casements. A single light, central window is similar. Two ground floor cross-frame similar leaded light casements on either side of doorway in gault brick porch with four centred outer arch. West gable end has shield of arms of Clare College, Cambridge and below W.1848 W. The school room at the rear forms a T-plan. Similar brickwork and slate roof. Single storey. Three bay west front with slightly projecting and pedimented centre bay. A stone panel inscribed "Gamlingay Schools 1848" in the tympanum. Two cross-frame lozenge shaped leaded lights. The outer bays have cross-frame casements of three lights. Inside: the former school room retains a reredos. Reset possibly from Chapel of St Etheldreda, Ely Place, London or from the chapel in Hatton Garden, Holborn parish. Wood, originally grey marbelled and now painted brown. In two heights with two side panels flanking a pedimented centre piece. Side panels flanked by Corinthian pilasters have bolection and fielded panels the upper having segmental heads. The tympanum of the pediment has a winged cherub head and garlands of fruit, flowers and ears of corn. Bracketted central corbel supporting a floral knot. The reredos bears some resemblance to work carried out by Wren at Merton College Chapel and in the City churches.
RCHM: West Cambs mon (6) Wren Society: XVII (1941) p 188 p1 IX elevation and plan NBR Photo neg AA 51/6210
Listing NGR: TL2416052285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52731
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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