Saint Mary's Hall and the Old Grammar School
SAINT MARY'S HALL, PHOENIX BANK
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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)
GV
II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260362
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 195
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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