Old Cathedral Grammar School
OLD CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1358639
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cathedral Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BROOK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1358639
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cathedral Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BROOK 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:
- OLD CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 33326 21028
Details
SE 3321 4/20
14.7.53.
BROOK STREET(West Side)
Old Cathedral Grammar School
(formerly listed as Cathedral Boys' School)
GII*
1598 with late C19 and early C20 additions.Early part of one tall storey,six bays.five-light stone-mullioned and double-transomed windows except in south bay where a shorter window has a draped escutcheon carved belay with names of members of the Savill family.Tooled, Squared,coursed sandstone with some rebuilding to lower walls.Inscriptions badly worn.Interior shows a fine king-post roof with stout principals, king-posts braced to ridge-piece and two levels of through-purlins.Later north extension in similar style.South cross-wing dated 1895 has moulded Tudor arch, with leafy spandrels and label moulding to doorway.Historical interest as the original Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (now in Northgate, qv) AM.
Listing NGR: SE3332621028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441731
- 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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