Kingsley Park Middle School
KINGSLEY PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, ST GEORGE'S AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371879
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsley Park Middle School
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSLEY PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, ST GEORGE'S AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371879
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsley Park Middle School
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSLEY PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, ST GEORGE'S AVENUE
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:
- KINGSLEY PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, ST GEORGE'S AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75985 62043
Details
The following building shall be included:
ST GEORGE'S AVENUE SP 7562 and SP 76 SE 10/600 and 14/600 Kingsley Park Middle School
II
School. Dated 1915; by Sharman and Archer of Wellingborough. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Sprocketted hipped plain tile roof with deep wooden modillion eaves cornice. Brick axial stacks with moulded stone caps; 2 central ashlar stacks.
Long front range with entrance in centre-piece, main hall in parallel range behind and 2 rear wings. Wrenaissance style.
2 storeys and basement at front, 2 and 3 storeys at rear. South front 9:3:3:3:9 bays. Central 9 bays advanced with stone pilasters and deep frieze with wreaths, the centre 3 ashlar bays break forward with open segmental pediment on consoles with dated cartouche and festoons in the frieze. All the windows have keystones, the centre 3 bays in moulded archives, the centre first floor with voluted canopy with large keystone and festoons. Central doorway with open pediment on consoles with cartouche above semi-circular fanlight and with panelled and glazed double doors. The lower flanking 9 bays, keystones, stone cills and brick aprons to windows.
Over the centre a wooden cupola with louvred sides, corner pilasters and ball finials and finial over dome. Parallel hall range at rear with round-headed clerestory windows and pedimental gables over round arch rear doorway; flanked by gable-ended rear wings. All sash windows with glazing bars and top opening lights.
Interior: Main hall has a balcony arcade on south side with iron balustrades and pier pilasters with consoles breaking the cornice above; similar consoles on window piers on north side; segmentally vaulted plaster ceiling and panelled dado. Entrance hall also has dado panelling, round-headed arches and round window lights. Roof over 'seminar room' has exposed arch braced trusses. Panelled library.
Note: Designed by Sharman and Archer and built by J G Pullen and Son of Northampton at a cost of £28,735, as the Northampton Grammar School for Girls.
Sources: Information provided by Northampton Borough Council. Buildings of England p. 339.
Listing NGR: SP7598562043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232288
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 339
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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