Description

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE ST GEORGE'S ROAD
680-1/8/367 (East side)
St George's Primary School and
boundary wall

II

Former board school, now primary school, and boundary wall.
c1875. By William Freeman of Hull for the Newington School
Board.
Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with small
gabled ventilators. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, coped gables
with kneelers. Single storey plus tower; 15-window range.
Central square entrance tower, 2 stages, has clasping
buttresses, string course, corbel table and pyramidal roof
with 4 louvred hipped dormers, topped with a weather vane.
Pointed arched entrance with a pair of half-glazed doors and
traceried overlight with hoodmould. Above, 2 single lancets
with an inscribed blind arcaded band below them. Returns have
a similar truncated single window. All these openings have
hoodmoulds and an ornamented impost band.
Flanking wings containing classrooms have a slightly
projecting central block with a central gable with 2 traceried
double lancets and above them, a foiled round window. All
these windows have hoodmoulds. Beyond, single stone mullioned
cross casements. On the inner sides, lower linking ranges each
with 2 stone mullioned cross casements, the right range with a
large raking dormer with a 3-light glazing bar casement.
Beyond, a large gabled through-eaves dormer with a traceried
double lancet with hoodmould.
Right return, to Arthur Street, has a central square
projection with a pyramidal roof and a gable through-eaves
dormer with a traceried double lancet. To its left, a stone
mullioned cross casement. To its right, a projecting gable
with a hipped wooden bell turret on brackets, and below, a
shallow gabled porch with a pair of doors under a
plate-traceried overlight. On either side, a single
flat-headed window. Outside, adjoining brick boundary wall
with chamfered ashlar coping and intermediate piers with
chamfered caps. Pair of gatepiers with similar caps to main
entrance. Plain coped wall to right return has a pair of plain
capped gatepiers.

Listing NGR: TA0724928485

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492139

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