Description

YORK

SE5952NE CLIFTON
1112-1/7/208 (South West side)
01/07/68 Former Memorial Gymnasium at St
Peter's School
(Formerly Listed as:
CLIFTON
The Memorial Gymnasium at St Peter's
School)

GV II

Gymnasium, now library. By Francis Bedford. Foundation stone
dated 1894. Snecked sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings.
Pantiled roof.
EXTERIOR: single storey. South-east wall of 5 bays separated
by buttresses. The windows have 2 cinquefoiled mullioned
lights, 2 transoms, and leaded glazing. The lower part of the
left-hand window has blind stone panels. The right-hand,
entrance, bay, has an ashlar panel with a moulded surround
which rises to a central square sundial with raised carved
numerals and Latin inscription. Below there is a window of 2
low cinquefoiled ogee lights above a moulded Tudor-arched
doorway with an oak door which has applied mouldings in
geometrical patterns. Above the archway there is a carved
shield of arms to each side. To the right of the doorway there
is a foundation stone inscribed: 'ALMAE MATRI ALUMINUS ERATIAS
AD MDCCCXCIV DECANO A.P. PUREY-CUST CANCELLARIO I. RAINE
MAGISTRO G.T. HANDFORD'. The north-east gable wall, facing the
road, has a window of 4 cinquefoiled ogee lights with transom
under a straight head with Perpendicular tracery. The
south-west gable wall has a window of 2 cinquefoiled ogee
lights with transom to each side of a central doorway. This
has a door with raised mouldings in geometrical patterns, a
moulded Tudor archway, and a panel above carved with leaf and
rose decoration with a central shield with crossed keys. Below
the apex of the gable there is a mullioned window of 4
cinquefoiled lights.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York:
Edinburgh: 1980-: 257; Murray H: Heraldry and the Buildings of
York: York: 1985-: 56-58).

Listing NGR: SE5960052676

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550373

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