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Latitude: 50.9498 / 50°56'59"N
Longitude: -2.7183 / 2°43'6"W
OS Eastings: 349634
OS Northings: 116954
OS Grid: ST496169
Mapcode National: GBR MK.NH3Q
Mapcode Global: FRA 566L.LSH
Plus Code: 9C2VW7XJ+WM
Entry Name: Montacute Church of England Voluntary Control Primary School, and Front Boundary Railings
Listing Date: 19 April 1961
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1345762
English Heritage Legacy ID: 263544
ID on this website: 101345762
Location: Montacute, Somerset, TA15
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Montacute
Built-Up Area: Montacute
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Architectural structure
ST4916 MONTACUTE CP ABBEY FARM LANE (West side) >
8/89 Montacute C of E V.C. Primary
School, and front boundary
railings
19.4.61
GV II
School. 1847, extended 1893, 1895-6 and in mid C20. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables;
yellow brick chianey stacks. Single-storey; original north section 3 bays. Plinth, eaves course, battlemented coping,
but with gable to the slightly projecting bay 2 which is crowned with a small bell turret, angled corner buttresses: to
outer bays 4-light mullioned and transomed windows with labels, the lights cusped ogee-headed; bay 2 has
pair boarded doors in 4-centre arches with carved spandrils under common label; above a plaque in Gothic style with
legend "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it", and incised in gable
"Montacute National School 1847". Single-bay extension to south, with long return to rear: in end gable is a multiple
plain window, under which is a projecting porch with flat roof behind parapet, having Cambered arched doorway with
toplights and flanking windows to match, above the door a scroll inscribed 'AD 1895': further south a C20 extension in
random coursed rubble, having plain parapet and 2-light steel casement windows with reconstructed stone surrounds.
Interior not seen. Simple wrot iron railings with top rail, no spikes to east of original school only; further south a
low stone wall with angled coping, all adding to the setting of the building and to the streetscene. (VCH Vol III,
1974).
Listing NGR: ST4963216954
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