MONTACUTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY CONTROL PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS

MONTACUTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY CONTROL PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ABBEY FARM LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345762
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: MONTACUTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY CONTROL PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: MONTACUTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY CONTROL PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ABBEY FARM LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345762
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: MONTACUTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY CONTROL PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: MONTACUTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY CONTROL PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ABBEY FARM LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Statutory Address:: MONTACUTE CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY CONTROL PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ABBEY FARM LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Montacute
National Grid Reference:: ST 49634 16953

Details

ST4916 MONTACUTE CP ABBEY FARM LANE (West side) > 8/89 Montacute C of E V.C. Primary School, and front boundary railings 19.4.61 GV II School. 1847, extended 1893, 1895-6 and in mid C20. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; yellow brick chianey stacks. Single-storey; original north section 3 bays. Plinth, eaves course, battlemented coping, but with gable to the slightly projecting bay 2 which is crowned with a small bell turret, angled corner buttresses: to outer bays 4-light mullioned and transomed windows with labels, the lights cusped ogee-headed; bay 2 has pair boarded doors in 4-centre arches with carved spandrils under common label; above a plaque in Gothic style with legend "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it", and incised in gable "Montacute National School 1847". Single-bay extension to south, with long return to rear: in end gable is a multiple plain window, under which is a projecting porch with flat roof behind parapet, having Cambered arched doorway with toplights and flanking windows to match, above the door a scroll inscribed 'AD 1895': further south a C20 extension in random coursed rubble, having plain parapet and 2-light steel casement windows with reconstructed stone surrounds. Interior not seen. Simple wrot iron railings with top rail, no spikes to east of original school only; further south a low stone wall with angled coping, all adding to the setting of the building and to the streetscene. (VCH Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4963216954

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Legacy System number:: 263544
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.