Description

CLIFTON HAMPDEN HIGH STREET
SU5495 (North side)
11/8 Clifton Hampden Church of
England Primary School and
attached teacher's house

_ II

School and teacher's house. c.1847. By Joseph Clarke for William Gibbs. Squared
uncoursed stone; old plain-tile roof; various stone stacks. Classrooms form
range with house to rear: Gothic Revival style. Single-storey, 2-window range
with projecting central tower. Double plank doors to 2-centred arched doorway at
base of tower. 4-light stone mullion windows to left and right. 3 trefoil
lancets to upper stage of tower. Clock to apex of tower. Gabled roof to school,
cross-roof to tower with wooden bellcote having spire and weathervane. Teacher's
house to rear has complex plan. Irregular fenestration of stone mullion and
transom windows. Complex roof. Interiors not inspected. Single late C19 bay
addition to left of classrooms, in same style. William Gibbs of Tyntesfield was
the brother of G.H. Gibbs. Lord of the Manor, and paid for the chapel at Keble
College, Oxford.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.7, 1962, p.26).

Listing NGR: SU5465395562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26312702

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