Description

KINGTON

SO2956
643-1/1/39
26/07/76

CHURCH ROAD
(South East side)
Lady Hawkins School
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH ROAD
Lady Hawkins Grammar School)

GV
II

School. c1632; altered and extended 1907. By John Abel.
Coursed dressed sandstone; plain tile roof; various early C20
stacks, some grouped and set diagonally. E-shaped on plan. 2
storeys and attic; 3-window range, 1 in each advanced wing:
early C20 windows, under hood moulds; 4 roof-dormers with
casements, under enriched plaster gables. Various entrances
and porches, with C20 doors, in moulded 4-centred arches;
various early C20 lights under hood moulds. Right returned
side of central wing has blocked doorway with chamfered
span-arch lintel. Plaque: "Lady Hawkins Foundress 1632". Early
C20 wing to east. INTERIOR: early C20 open-well staircase with
moulded balusters; early C20 staircase with stick balusters.
C17 mullion and transom window with metal casements, under
hood mould (now under C20 porch). Founded on bequest by
Margaret (nee Vaughan), widow of Sir John Hawkins, d.1620.
Windows raised, roof rebuilt, and east wing added, 1907.
(RCHME: Herefordshire: 91).

Listing NGR: SO2912456659

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q99937477

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)