Description

NARBOROUGH SCHOOL LANE SP 59 NW 7/61 All Saints' Church Rooms GV II

Former church school with house for school-mistress, now church rooms. 1873. Granite rubble with red brick and limestone dressings; tarred slate roof with zig-zag tile right; brick chimneys. U-plan, with house for school-mistress projecting to left, schoolroom projecting to right, and lobbies in inner angles. Both projecting wings are gabled. Chamfered plinth, moulded brick eaves and gable verges. School, to right, is in early English style with moulded sill string and arched windows in moulded brick surrounds. Below each main window is a terracotta frieze with scroll ornament. Centre bay has pair of arched lights with cusped roundel above, cusped hoodmould and gable over. Projecting right bay has triple lancets with dripmould, and round window above. Left side of this wing has lean-to lobby with lancet to front, and gable over moulded arch with hoodmould and double doors in left side, All hoodmoulds have carved stops. Right side of wing has 4 pairs of lancets and 2 buttresses. To centre of ridge of school wing is a square bell turret with louvred wooden bellcote, slender spirelet, and cusped gables over side louvres on base. House to left is simpler in style and is of 2 storeys with Limestone band course at first floor level. Projecting gable has sash windows with chamfered brick jambs, and limestone sills and lintels. Upper window also has brick relieving arch. Ground floor has canted corners with narrow sashes, the upper storey quoins off-set and carried on shaped stone brackets. Right side of wing has lean-to lobby with upper storey jettied on shaped brick corbels, irregular single lights, and door with shaped stone arch over fanlight.

Listing NGR: SP5399597512

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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