Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET
930-1/10/208 (West side)
22/06/78 St Andrew's Church Hall and attached
wall

GV II

National school, now an auction room to the ground floor. By
John Darley. Dated 1837. Hall to the rear, now a church hall,
mid/late C19. Limestone ashlar and squared rubblestone; slate
roofs, partly crested.
PLAN: 2 continuous rectangular blocks, one facing north-east
to St Mary Street is an auction room, one facing south-east to
the churchyard is the church hall.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range to the main St Mary Street
facade and 8-window range to the left return to the
churchyard. Moulded copings to gables and eaves cornices. The
rubblestone north-east facade has an ashlar plinth and
projecting gabled bay, the coping continuing as a parapet to
each side; triple semicircular-arched 2-light windows, the top
of the stone mullions forming a Y. The principal mullions
continue through both floors and the blank space at floor
level has the inscription " NATIONAL SCHOOLS ERECTED by
Voluntary Subscriptions In the Year 1837". This is flanked by
plain walls with dressed quoins.
To the right is a lower set-back range which has paired
semicircular-arched windows of 4 vertical panes in a plain
ashlar surround over a semicircular-arched opening with a
roll-moulded arris, 4-panel door with 2-pane fanlight and
narrow panels to the side.
The left return has 4 gables, 3 linked to the right with small
oculi are of similar height to the front gable, a slightly
lower one to the left is separated by a semicircular-arched
doorway and gabled porch under a coped parapet; C20 door. Each
gable has paired windows similar to those over the front
entrance.
The church hall facing the churchyard has cresting to the
ridge and to 3 gables over tall 3-light stone-mullioned
windows with trefoil heads. To the left is a gabled porch to a
pointed-arched doorway. The coped roof has a bellcote to the
north-east gable end.
INTERIOR: the church hall retains a timber roof and the school
has some cast-iron pillars.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the right of the building a
limestone rubble revetment wall approx 3m high extends
northward approx 16m along St Mary Street to meet the wall of
No.12A (qv) where a wall meets it at a right angle to enclose
the grounds of the school. It is approx 3m high and 6m long
and is high above the pavement.
Attached to the left of the north-east facade, a rubblestone
retaining wall fronts the churchyard along St Mary Street (qv)
(included separately under Market Place)
HISTORY: this was the first primary school in Chippenham using
the monitorial system, one teacher to sometimes hundreds of
children.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 97).

Listing NGR: ST9226773245

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558278

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  For the Record
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