Ewelme Church of England Primary School
Ewelme Church of England Primary School, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1369062
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ewelme Church of England Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- Ewelme Church of England Primary School, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1369062
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ewelme Church of England Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ewelme Church of England Primary School, High 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:
- Ewelme Church of England Primary School, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ewelme
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 64598 91360
Details
SU64911
8/94
EWELME
HIGH STREET (North side)
Ewelme Church of England Primary School
(Formerly listed as School)
18/07/63
GV
I
School. c.1450. Knapped flint base; red brick; old plain-tile roof; brick lateral stacks. two-storey, three-window range.
C15 double door with Perpendicular tracery pattern ribbing and studding to two-storey porch to left return. Stepped angle buttresses to left and right corners. two-light stone mullioned window with trangular cusped tracery top to left. Single-light stone window with triangular cusped tracery top to right. Two two-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds with winged figures and armorial shields to label stops to centre. Two-light stone mullioned window to first floor centre and left. Single-light stone window to right. Massive lateral stacks to left and right of centre. Two-light stone mullioned window to first floor of porch to left return.
Interior: six-bay arched collar-truss roof with wind braces.
Subsidiary wing to rear left; red brick base; limestone rubble to first floor. C20 window openings.
History: Built at the expense of the Earl and Countess of Suffolk. The countess (nee Alice Chaucer) was born in Ewelme in 1400, the daughter of Thomas Chaucer, the lord of the manor, and grand-daughter of Geoffrey, the poet. She married William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk in 1430 (created Duke of Suffolk 1448). He "for love of his wife and the commodity of her lands felt much to dwell in Oxfordshire". They rebuilt the church, established the adjoining almshouse and built the school. The use of brick is one of the earliest in the county.
(Malcolm Airs "Ewelme" Archaeological Journal, Vol.135, 1978, pp.275-280; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.595-600; Guide to St. Mary's Church, Ewelme, and to the Almshouses and the School)
Listing NGR: SU6459691365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Guide to St Marys Church Ewelme and to the Almshouses and the School, (1980)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 595-600
Malcolm Airs, , Ewelme in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 135, (1978), 275-280
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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