SAINT MARY'S HALL AND THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL

SAINT MARY'S HALL, PHOENIX BANK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366464
Date first listed:: 07-May-1952
List Entry Name:: SAINT MARY'S HALL AND THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: SAINT MARY'S HALL, PHOENIX BANK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366464
Date first listed:: 07-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: SAINT MARY'S HALL AND THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: SAINT MARY'S HALL, PHOENIX BANK
Statutory Address 2:: THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, PHOENIX BANK

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SAINT MARY'S HALL, PHOENIX BANK
Statutory Address:: THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, PHOENIX BANK

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Market Drayton
National Grid Reference:: SJ6763234074

Details

SJ 6634-6734 13/58 7.5.52

MARKET DRAYTON C.P. PHOENIX BANK (north-west side) Saint Mary's Hall and The Old Grammar School (formerly listed as Old Grammar School)

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Grammar school and schoolmaster's house, now 2 houses. Mid-C18, possibly incorporating some mid-C16 fabric. Red brick with plain tile roofs. Sloping site with former schoolhouse of one storey and attic to north- west and 2 storeys and attic to south east and former schoolmaster's house adjoining to south-west of 2 storeys and attic and storeys and attic. Schoolhouse, north-west front: plat band, parapeted gable end to left and integral brick end stacks. Pair of hipped eaves dormers with 2-light wooden casements. 4 bays; segmental-headed wooden cross windows with painted stone cills. C20 plaque between first and second windows from right inscribed: "THIS IS THE ORIGINAL / ST MARY'S HALL / IN WHICH SIR ROWLAND HILL, KT / THE FIRST PROTESTANT LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, / FOUNDED THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL / IN 1555. / ROBERT CLIVE 1st LORD CLIVE, / THE FOUNDER OF THE INDIAN / EMPIRE, WAS A PUPIL HERE." South- east front: plat band.3 hipped eaves dormers. 1:4 bays; segmental- headed wooden cross windows. 2 storey projection to left with glazing bar sashes. Schoolmaster's house, north-west front: Plinth, plat band and parapeted gable ends with integral brick gable ends. 3 hipped dormers with 2-light wooden casements. 5 bays; glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes; segmental-brick relieving arches to first floor and gauged heads to ground floor. C20 small-paned glazed doors in left-hand bay and in second bay from right, both with C20 doorcases consisting of moulded architrave, frieze and cornice. Disturbed brick- work suggests that the left-hand door replaces a window. Right-hand gable end: plat bands 2 bays with glazing bar sashes and 2 small square attic casements. South-east front: plat bands. 4 bays; glazing bar sashes with exposed boxes, stone cills and gauged-brick heads. C20 small-paned glazed door with rectangular overlight in third bay from left. Interior of Saint Mary's Hall: former ground-(or first-) floor school room. Reset mid-C16 stone bust of Sir Rowland Hill in niche with elliptical arch and superscribed inscription below: "ROLANDUS / HYLL MILES", set in moulded panel. C17 or C18 dais at south-west end of hall with plaster coving above to moulded wooden cornice. C18 oak winder stair. Former kitchen in basement (or ground floor) with large early C19 fireplace surround. Former dormitories in attic. 3-bay roof. Trusses with upper crucks or curved principal rafters on one side. The Grammar School was founded in 1558 by Sir Rowland Hill. Although facing onto a footpath leading to the Church of Saint Mary (q.v.) the address of these buildings is Phoenix Bank onto which their other elevation looks. B.o.E., p.195.

Listing NGR: SJ6763234074

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Legacy System number:: 260362
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 195

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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.