Description

BURNLEY

SD8432NW CHURCH STREET
906-1/16/38 (West side)
29/09/77 St Peter's Church of England Infants
and Junior School (West range)
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(West side)
St Peter's Infant and Junior School)

GV II

School. Late C19; altered. Snecked sandstone rubble, slate
roof. Rectangular plan with extensions at both ends. Gothic
style.
The main range is a single storey over a basement which
exploits a fall in the ground (down to the bank of the River
Brun), with a 4-bay architectural front to the south. This has
an open-arcaded basement play area, with buttresses and
double-chamfered segmental-pointed arches; a main floor which
has 6-light mullion-and-transom windows with hood-moulds and
figured stops; and a steeply-pitched roof with coped gables
and a gable chimney at the east end. At the east end is a
ramped approach to a C20 entrance made in the side of the east
extension. The rear of this range has 4 windows like those at
the front. The east extension, facing onto the churchyard, is
of 2 unequal bays, that to the left having a gabled porch with
a blocked segmental-headed doorway and a side-window under one
hood-mould, and a crow-stepped gable with a sunk plaque carved
with the keys of St Peter, and that to the right gabled, with
a large canted mullion-and-transom bay window. Lower additions
at the south-east corner now link this building with the East
Range (qv). INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8429032887

Recommended Books

• 
  Herefordshire (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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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2