Description

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE KENYON STREET
SJ 99 NW

4/10005 HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL

- II

School. 1885, by Henry and Medland Taylor. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings,
Welsh slated roof with ashlar sandstone copies to gables and some crested clay ridge tiles.
Irregular 4 plan, with apsidal west end with projecting hipped wings to north and south,
and gabled east end with hipped roofed entrance tower to north-east corner. East
elevation, with advanced gable to south, with four tall pointed lancets to ground floor,
below four first floor lancets, the outer two lower, all with cusped heads to window
joinery. Ashlar cill bands, and gabled pilasters between inner and outer first floor
windows. Recessed panels between advanced buck strings, outer panels blind, the inner
ones with foliage moulding and shields bearing date A.D. 1895. Central gable set back,
with flat headed shallow ground floor windows beneath four first floor lancets with linked
brick hood mould, and arcade of blind pointed arched recessed following slope of gable
apex. Entrance tower incorporating staircase to north-east corner, with altered ground
floor doorway, with stilted arched head, beneath moulded brick hood, with stone foliage
stops five first floor pointed arch-headed windows above ashlar cill band, the outer two
openings blind. North elevation with gabled cross wing to east end, with single ground
floor window, coupled first floor lancets, and blind arcade to gable apex. Recessed main
range with mateling pattern of openings set between shallow buttresses. Tall square tower
with crenellated parapet and steep pyramidal roof to west end. 3 stages to tower, with
tall twin lancets with louvres to upper stage, and shallow lights, some blind to middle
stage. Clasping buttresses with ashlar set-offs to outer corners. Interior retains much of
original plan, including stair towers, and glazed (formerly moveable) partition screens to
ground and first floors. Arch braced roof trusses, and apsidal roof members are visible,
carried on moulded corbels. A wall plaque in the interior records the opening of the
school in 1885, the building having been funded from the will of George Heginbottom,
on land given by the 7th Earl of Stamford and Warrington.

Listing NGR: SJ9328899189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533182

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)