Queen Elizabeth Higher School, St Lawrence Green, Crediton, Devon
The Queen Elizabeth Higher School was built in 1859 to the designs of John Hayward in Tudor style. A framed print in the hall shows the inauguration of the school in 1860. John Hayward of Exeter was the leading local Gothic Revival architect from the 1840s. He worked principally on church restoration and carried out an extensive restoration and repair programme on Crediton parish church in the 1870s. There are only a handful of secular (non religious) buildings by him in the county.
