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Latitude: 50.9691 / 50°58'8"N
Longitude: -2.7678 / 2°46'3"W
OS Eastings: 346185
OS Northings: 119129
OS Grid: ST461191
Mapcode National: GBR MH.M8LY
Mapcode Global: FRA 562K.5K7
Plus Code: 9C2VX69J+JV
Entry Name: The Old School
Listing Date: 28 April 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357416
English Heritage Legacy ID: 422283
ID on this website: 101357416
Location: Martock, Somerset, TA12
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Martock
Built-Up Area: Martock
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
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The Old School, Church Street.
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The Old School, Church Street.
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ST4619 MARTOCK CP CHURCH STREET (East side)
12/193 The Old School
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GV II
Former National School, now assembly hall. Dated 1846. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof between coped gables, behind
a parapet on front elevation; stone and brick chimney stacks. Single storey, 5 bays. Plinth, eaves course, open
quatrefoil-work parapet, bay buttresses, offset on corners; 3-light cinquefoil cusped windows with transomes and flat
arched heads under labels with deep drops, mostly diamond-leaded, to bays 1, 2, 4 and 5: bay 3 is a gabled projection
with angled corner buttresses and pointed arched doorway set under deep square label, the spandrils elaborately carved
with foilage; pierced stonework vent in gable, under a pinnacle finial; set over doorway a square panel with the
inscription "Glory to God in the Highest/Martock National School House/ erected by public and private contributions/AD
1846/Jesus said suffer the little children to come unto me". Interior not seen. The building was in use as a school
until a new school was opened in 1975. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4618519129
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