Description

HERTFORD

TL3212SE CHURCH PATH
817-1/20/38 (North side)
No.9
and Churchfields Kindergarten

GV II

School house and school, former Abel Smith Memorial School for
Girls, later All Saints Girls' School, now nursery school
1861, with C20 alterations. Yellow stock brick, Flemish bond,
with red brick bands, moulded stone sill band, kneelers,
copings and dressings, old tiled roof, with blue roll ridge
tiles, stone coped gables left and right, brick chimneys with
bands and oversailing courses. School House at left (west),
with 4 bay classroom, with projecting gable at right (east).
EXTERIOR: single and 2 storeys. House has 4 light stone
mullion and transom window on first floor, projecting square
bay with mullion and transom window and hipped tiled roof on
ground floor, entrance turret at right with 2 light lancet
with trefoil heads above stone pointed arch, red brick bands,
at intervals, across facade.
To right the classroom wing has multi-light chamfered brick
reveals, with pebbledashed panels and pointed segmental arches
above, with stone kneelers and keyblock and alternating
voussoir bands of red and yellow brick. Bay divisions with
projecting buttresses with offsets, 3 red brick bands across
facade, with splayed projecting plinth at base; projecting
gable at right similarly detailed, with a taller narrower
window and more red brick bands across gable above. C20 flat
roofed extensions to rear.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: commemorative tablet in gable records that
the school was built in memory of Abel Smith of Woodhall Park
(1788-1859), who had served Hertford as MP. The school took
the girls from the overcrowded Cowper School built 1841 on the
London Road. The design of the school shows the influence of
model school plans of the period, notably the work of
Butterfield published in 1852 in 'Instrumenta Ecclesia'.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in Pictures: Ware: 1993-: 132; Page
FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 144, 179-80).

Listing NGR: TL3296912482

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559220

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014