St Cuthbert'S School

NZ 05 SE CONSETT CHURCH BANK

(North side) Shotley Bridge 5/24 (inset) St. Cuthbert's School GV II

Parish school. 1882 by Smith and Son; site given by Robert Dickinson of Shotley House. Dated 1881 and 1897 on porches. Snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Early English style. One storey, with basement at west on slope of hill; 5 bays. Chamfered 2-centred arches in inner returns of porches, open and with recessed double door and overlight at left, and with diagonally-boarded door at right; front gables of porches have plate-traceried 3-light windows, with dated shields on leaf-stopped strings in gable peaks; large plate-traceried 3-light window in front gable of left wing; 2 groups of 3 lancets in main range between porches. Flat gable copings, with roll-moulded finials, on porches; steeply- pitched roof has similar copings with stone cross finials; central Gothic- arcaded fleche with wrought-iron cross finial. L-plan, with gabled left wing overlapping left porch, and matching porch in right bay. Source: G. Neasham, The History and Biographies of West Durham, Durham 1883,83. Included for group value

Listing NGR: NZ0929152661