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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26643090

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