Description

SE 3456 KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE YARD (north side)

8/88 National School for Boys

GV II

School, now offices. 1814. Ashlar, Westmorland slate roof. Single storey, 2 x 5 bays, with lower single-storey, 3-bay range to left and C20 addition to east. North front: main block has 24-pane sashes with projecting sills and shouldered wedge lintels, hipped roof, and central stone tablet above eaves level inscribed 'NATIONAL SCHOOL ERECTED 1814' with scroll decoration. Lower range: original entrance, now with C20 iron gate, on right. C20 windows. Rear: main block windows as front. Lower range has sashes with glazing bars. Interior: floor inserted to main range. This was the first school in the district to be established by the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church which was founded in 1811. It has accommodation for 200 boys. The 1851 map shows the layout of the building, which was composed of a large hall on the west side, and about 5 small rooms along the east side. B Jennings (Ed) Harrogate and Knaresborough, 1970, pp 380-1. Ordnance Survey Map of Knaresborough, Scale 5 feet to 1 mile) 1851.

Listing NGR: SE3496256942

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