FORMER VILLAGE SCHOOL (GIRLS) AND CHURCH HALL

CHURCH HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367790
Date first listed:: 15-May-1989
List Entry Name:: FORMER VILLAGE SCHOOL (GIRLS) AND CHURCH HALL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367790
Date first listed:: 15-May-1989
List Entry Name:: FORMER VILLAGE SCHOOL (GIRLS) AND CHURCH HALL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH HALL
Statutory Address 2:: FORMER VILLAGE SCHOOL (GIRLS)

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.

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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:: CHURCH HALL
Statutory Address:: FORMER VILLAGE SCHOOL (GIRLS)

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Churchill
National Grid Reference:: SP2831424020

Details

CHURCHILL SP2824-2924 16/55 Former village school (girls) and Church Hall

GV II

Shown on O.S. map as Church Hall and The Lower School House. School, part latterly used as church hall, part in domestic use. Mid-C19 with minor later alterations. Roughly and regularly coursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins carried up to gable ends; slate roof with stepped coped verges on carved stone kneelers. Tudor Gothic style. Centre range with flush gabled range on left projecting to rear and slightly projecting gabled range to right. One storey and attic to left and centre ranges, one storey to right. Left gable has two 2-light mullion windows to ground floor and one with dripstone to centre above; louvred rectangular slit opening to apex. Centre range has nail-studded boarded double doors in Tudor-arched surround with hollow spandrels. Gabled half-dormer with 2-light mullion window directly above. Right gable has 3-light mullioned and transomed window with dripstone, blank armorial shield above and louvred rectangular slit opening to apex. Axial ridge stack with moulded capping to left of centre range and ridge stack to right, both with moulded capping. Low gabled range with integral end stack attached to rear of left range. Two schools at Churchill are referred to in mid-C19 trade directories but it is not clear if either of them was held in this building at that time. Included for group value. (Post Office Directory for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (1847), p2166; Gardener's Gazeteer and Directory (1852), p840) [2497]

Listing NGR: SP2831424020

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Legacy System number:: 253945
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Post Office Directory' in Post Office Directory for Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, (1847), 2166
'Gardners Gazetteer and Directory of Oxfordshire' in Gardners Gazetteer and Directory of Oxfordshire, (1852), 840

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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.