St Mawgan School
ST MAWGAN SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327360
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Mawgan School
- Statutory Address:
- ST MAWGAN SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327360
- Date first listed:
- 12-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- St Mawgan School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MAWGAN SCHOOL
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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:
- ST MAWGAN SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mawgan-in-Pydar
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 87347 65892
Details
MAWGAN IN PYDAR
1555/1/74 ST MAWGAN
02-APR-02 ST MAWGAN SCHOOL
GV II
School. 1863 by William Butterfield; extended 1876 by Silvanus Trevail. C20 alterations and additions. Stone rubble with granite dressings. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Rear lateral stack, stepped, in stone rubble with brick shaft; axial stack to right in stone ashlar with embattled cornice.
Plan: Main schoolroom to left, with a crosswing to right, containing a large classroom to front and small room to rear. The main schoolroom is heated from a rear lateral stack and the 2 rooms in the wing from an axial stack. Porch set in the angle to the cross wing at the front. C20 additions to rear left. Gothic style.
Exterior: Asymmetrical single storey front; to left, two C20 2-light casements with buttress between; to end left a stone quatrefoil window. The porch has shouldered arched doorway with plank door and buttress. The gable end of the front wing has 2 tall lancets with C20 glazing and breather above. At the right side are 2 plate-glass sashes with shouldered arches; to right there is a gable over 2 larger similar sashes. The left gable end has large mullion and transom window set off-centre to right with chamfered granite lintel and relieving arch. Corbelled bellcote over with hipped roof and bell. Small single storey privy attached to left. At the rear, the gable end of the cross wing to left has 2 tall lancets. The rear of the main schoolroom has C20 single storey additions with a stone quatrefoil window to right as on the front.
Interior: The main schoolroom has arched-brace and scissors truss roof. Panelled and glazed partition wall to the cross wing.
Sources: [1] Thompson, P. William Butterield 1971. [2] West Briton, 24th Aug 1876.
Listing NGR: SW8734965894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)
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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