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SHEFFIELD

SK3486NE CAVENDISH STREET 784-1/29/152 (West side) 28/06/73 Springfield Junior and Infant Schools (Formerly Listed as: CAVENDISH STREET Springfield County School)

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Board school, now junior and infant schools. 1875, with additions 1892 and 1897. By Innocent & Brown. For the Sheffield School Board. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with single side wall and single gable stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands, coped gables. 3 storeys; 9 window range. Main block has a recessed centre flanked by single gabled wings. First floor has 6 round-arched single light windows and above, 2 small single light windows flanked by large through eaves dormers with transomed double lancets with quatrefoil lights above. Ground floor has 5 round-arched single light windows. Left wing has 3 round-arched single light windows and above, a stepped triple lancet with transoms and hoodmould. Below, 2 shouldered single light windows. Right return has a single window on each floor, the second floor one flat-headed. To the left of the gable, an angle buttress topped with an arched bell turret with 4 arched openings and a spire with weather vane. To left, a canted stair tower, 3 storeys plus attic, with hipped roof. Single small window on each floor and 7 quatrefoil lights to the attic. Left return has staggered windows on the lower floors. The canted corner has a blocked window and above it, a gabled niche containing an inscribed datestone. Right wing has on the first floor, 2 paired shouldered windows with linked hoodmoulds and above, a central transomed double lancet with wheel window above, flanked by single transomed lancets, all with linked hoodmoulds. Ground floor has a central gabled buttress and to left, a pointed relieving arch with inner moulded segmental arch containing a small window. To left, an angle buttress. To right, a small paired window. Right return has a shouldered window on the upper floors and below, a flat-headed door with cusped headed surround under a segmental relieving arch. To right, a 2 storey linking wing with 3 windows on each floor, the upper ones larger and with cusped lintels. Rear elevation has a central projecting double gable with short central buttress. Ground and first floors have 2 large round-headed glazing bar windows flanked by smaller transomed round-arched windows. Above, each gable has a 4-light shouldered transomed window. Set back gable, to right, has 3 round-arched windows and above, a stepped triple lancet. Below, a single large round-arched window. Right return has 3 windows on the upper floors, the second floor ones round-headed, and on the ground floor a large round-arched window. Single storey addition, to Bolton Street, has single gable and single ridge stacks with lozenge-shaped flues. 2 large gabled through-eaves dormers, each with a transomed double lancet with quatrefoil above, alternating with 6 shouldered single light windows. Above, 3 gabled ventilators. Left gable has a stepped triple lancet with hoodmould, flanked by single shouldered windows. At the rear, adjoining 2 storey play deck, L-plan. Railed deck carried on cast-iron columns, with coped stone end wall. On the deck, a single storey square building with pyramidal roof and single window. To right, 1897 addition, with single storey block to left with stepped coped parapet. To left, round-arched doorway with cusped head flanked by 2 small single lancets, and above them, single shouldered windows. To right, 3 tall segment-headed transomed windows. To right again, a coped gable with square chimney stacks forming angle pilasters, with square caps with side openings. Low unglazed stepped triple lancet in moulded pointed recess, and below, a transomed shouldered triple window with shafts. Right return rendered. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: this school is one of a number designed by Innocent & Brown for the Sheffield School Board, and is amongst the earliest in England to be built after the 1870 Education Act. (Innocent & Brown: Illustrations of Public Elementary Schools (etc): Sheffield: 1873-; Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3462586938

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