WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ELD HALL, MAIN BUILDING, ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS

WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ELD HALL, MAIN BUILDING, ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, UPPER TYTHING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390244
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ELD HALL, MAIN BUILDING, ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ELD HALL, MAIN BUILDING, ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, UPPER TYTHING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390244
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ELD HALL, MAIN BUILDING, ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ELD HALL, MAIN BUILDING, ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, UPPER TYTHING

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ELD HALL, MAIN BUILDING, ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, UPPER TYTHING

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO8473855833

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WORCESTER

SO4555NE UPPER TYTHING 620-1/8/657 (East side) 19/01/89 Worcester Royal Grammar School Eld Hall, Main Building, attached gates and gate piers

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Worcester Royal Grammar School. Eld Hall to left (north) is 1868 by A.E. Perkins, the attached wing to the south is 1895 by A. Hill Parker, architect of Worcester, (ref. also Perrins Hall (qv) and buildings for the King's School). Red brick with stone dressings. Plain clay tile roofs. Lantern of timber and lead to ridge of Eld Hall. Eld Hall: formerly open hall, first-floor inserted c1981 (prior to listing in 1989). 3-window range. Stone dressings include quoins, plinth and sill band, window surrounds, cornice, copings with urns to curvilinear gables, plaque with niche above containing statue to central gable of facade; coat-of-arms over door. Windows are 3-light mullion and transom to full height, curved head to each light, lattice glazing; all the windows are surmounted by curvilinear gables, those to the left and right having slit windows; a niche in the central gable contains a statue of Elizabeth I attributed to Perkins and executed by Boulton. The centre window and gable break forward slightly, defined by quoins. Octagonal lantern with diamond leaded lights surmounted by spirelet with ornate finial to centre of main ridge. Large 5-light perpendicular-style window to right-return; rectangular louvered opening above. The left-return is similar but is partially concealed by a set-back, single-storey entrance range with gabled porch of matching design to the gables over the hall windows. Arch-headed, 15-panel, double-leaf doors; carved Royal coat-of-arms above; 3-light window to left. Southern Wing: Attached to the Eld Hall by a set-back link containing entrance and in similar style and materials. Longitudinal axis of building runs at right-angles to the street. 2 storeys. 1 first-floor window. Stone detailing includes plinth capping; window surrounds; head band to ground-floor window and sill-band to first-floor window and 3 carved shields between; copings and 2 bands to gable. 3-light mullion and transom window with sidelights to each floor; centre ground-floor window forms shallow bay, brickwork to either side continues up to form 2 piers with their upper sections in stone; each light to the first-floor windows have pointed arch heads, segmental pointed arch over the centre 3 lights; horizontal glazing bars. Polygonal-ended stair turret to left with small 2-light mullion window on ground-floor and tall, 2-light mullion and transom window above. Rising sills to 3-light mullion and transom window to left-return echo staircase within. Right-return has central full-height bay capped by a large parapeted gable. Extensions to the rear of both buildings are later. INTERIOR: The Eld Hall retains some original features including a fireplace, panelling and exposed hammer-beam roof. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: To the extreme left of the group are a pair of ornate wrought-iron gates hung on polygonal stone piers terminated by a moulded cornice, domed caps and finials; linked to the entrance range of the Eld Hall by 2m. length of 2m. high brick wall with stone coping. The gates and piers have been relocated from their original location in front of the entrance probably as a result of road widening in the first half of the C20. NOTE: The Eld Hall is so named as a tribute to Reverend F.J. Eld, headmaster from 1860-92. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 325; Anon.: A Short History of the Royal Grammar School: 1985-).

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Legacy System number:: 489215
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.