Description

YORK

SE6052NW LORD MAYOR'S WALK
1112-1/8/569 (North East side)
01/07/68 University College of Ripon & York
St John: School Building
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD MAYOR'S WALK
Original NW block & SE block only to
The College of Ripon & York St John)

GV II

Yeoman School; now part of University Teacher Training
College. 1846 with later C19 extension; C19 and C20
alteration. By GT Andrews for the York and Ripon Diocesan
Boards of Education.
MATERIALS: orange-grey brick in English bond with chamfered
stone plinth band and stone dressings; timber guttering on
timber modillions. Slate roofs with moulded stone copings and
banks of stone corniced brick stacks, some set diagonally.
Gabled dormers are weatherboarded with slate roofs, plain
bargeboards and windows of paired shouldered narrow 8-pane
casements: box dormers are inserted.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey front with attics: 12-window main range
with 3-window wing projecting at left end and gabled crosswing
at right end. Entrance in centre of inner return of projecting
left wing through 4-centred arched doorway with recessed
glazed and panelled door in glazed screen with tall 4-light
overlight. Above is 2-light window, to right 3-light windows
on both floors. Gabled bay to left and gable end to crosswing
have 2-storey square bay windows with half hipped roofs,
3-light ground floor windows, 2-light first floor windows, and
single segment-headed lights in the gable apex. In main range,
ground floor windows are 3-light 12-pane sashes with segmental
heads and four C20 2-light windows inserted between: on first
floor, single 8-pane casements. Left wing has single gabled
bay to left of 2-window front. Gable has square-headed ground
floor window of 4 mullioned and transomed sashes beneath
relieving arch: first floor window is of 3 tall segment-headed
sashes: to right, windows on both floors are of 2 lights. All
have horizontal glazing bars. Moulded first floor string steps
down around ground floor left window, extends across full
width of main range and wings and continues over right return.
Rear of main range: glazed and panelled door with overlight in
square-headed quoined and double chamfered surround,
approached by flight of steps.
Right return: 2 storeys and attics; 4 windows with external
stack corbelled out from first floor at right end. Nail
studded vertically ribbed door to left, in 4-centred moulded
arch on slender jamb shafts with moulded capitals, bases and
hood. On ground floor windows are 2- and 3-light

segment-headed, one transomed: on first floor, three single
light 8-pane casement windows and one of paired similar
lights.
Window surrounds are square-headed, quoined and double
chamfered with chamfered mullions and sloped sills. Most first
floor windows are 8-pane casements.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-:
53).

Listing NGR: SE6048552477

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548793

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