QUEEN MARY SCHOOL

QUEEN MARY SCHOOL, CLIFTON DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389627
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-2001
List Entry Name:: QUEEN MARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: QUEEN MARY SCHOOL, CLIFTON DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389627
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-2001
List Entry Name:: QUEEN MARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN MARY SCHOOL, CLIFTON DRIVE

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:: QUEEN MARY SCHOOL, CLIFTON DRIVE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:: Saint Anne's on the Sea
National Grid Reference:: SD3340627900

Details

621-1/0/10006 21-DEC-01

CLIFTON DRIVE Queen Mary School

II

Secondary school. 1930 with mid C20 alterations and late C20 additions. By Thomas Taliesin Rees and Richard Holt, architects. Red brick,and ashlar sandstone with sandstone dressings and Westmorland slate roof coverings , laid to diminishing courses. PLAN: Double quadrangular plan set behind a long frontage elevation, and enclosed by lower parallel rear range. EXTERIOR: ENTRANCE ( NORTH ) FRONT: Long 2 storey range, with central 3-bay entrance set within balustraded central portico made up of giant columns with Corinthian capitals . Moulded doorcase to main entrance below broken segmental pediment. Hipped roof rises behind balustrade, with cupola and weathervane. Flanking 12 bay ranges, with glazing bar sashes to tall first floor windows and smaller square ground floor openings. Paired pilasters to corners, and moulded cornice gutter. These are linked to advanced single storeyed pavilion wings, with pilastered corners, tall side wall windows and hipped roofs. These were formerly library (left) and kitchen, with stack, (right) . REAR ELEVATION: long, single storeyed range with hipped roofs and multi-pane windows in plain surrounds. Set-back bays at either end were extended in near matching style. The original range has hopper heads dated 1930. Front and rear ranges are linked by ranges to the outer sides of the 2 quadrangles, formerly single-storeyed, now with added storey to east side, and to the centre by the galleried assembly hall . INTERIOR: Little-disturbed original plan survives, with original door and window joinery throughout most of the complex. Full-length corridors to both front and rear ranges connect central entrance hall with all other ranges .Twin flanking stair with cast-iron balusters give access to upper floor corridor to frontage range and to assembly hall gallery. Hall with raised stage to south end tiered gallery , segmental vaulted roof with moulded plaster panels. Ground floor cloakrooms formerly for junior and senior pupils retain original cast iron columns and numbered pegs together with accompanying benches. HISTORY: The Queen Mary School for Girls was completed in 1930, 2 years after the extension of suffrage to women in 1928. The equally extensive provision for the boys of Lytham had been completed in 1906. Both schools were funded by the Lytham Schools Foundation, which had its origins in 1702, when the then Clerk of Lytham, a Mr Threllfall,gave £5 for ' poor childrens' schooling'.

An extensive and little- altered girls secondary school of 1930 (completed 2 years after the final extension of suffrage to women) in a convincing and carefully- detailed neo-Georgian style, demonstrating the commitment to the most up-to-date educational provision of the ambitious and expanding local authority at Lytham St Annes. The building. is described as an 'undiluted' example of the genre in 'The English School' by Seabourne and Lowe ( p.142, vol 2), and is one of the best of its kind.

The school was designed and finished to a high specification, both in terms of the materials used for the external fabric and the internal finishes.

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Legacy System number:: 488316
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Seaborne, M, Lowe, R, The English School: Its Architecture and Organisation 1870-1970, (1977), 142

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.