St Andrews School

BURNLEY

SD83SW COLNE ROAD 906-1/3/46 (East side) St Andrew's School

GV II

School. 1866 (preceding the church (qv) and probably serving as both church and school); former south wing apparently demolished. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof. Gothic style, with steeply pitched roofs. Asymmetrical T-plan formed by 8-bay main range on east-west axis with a long south wing attached to the 2nd bay. Single storey. Both gables of the main range have a large 2-centred arched 3-light window with circular tracery, hood-mould with figured stops and polychrome arch-band, a small spherical-triangle in the apex and gable coping with an apex cross; the north side of this range has square-headed 2-light windows with double-chamfered surrounds and shouldered lights, and towards the east end a doorway with overlight in this style, all with linked hood-moulds; the south side has a shouldered doorway with chamfered surround to the bay west of the wing, and 4 windows east of it like those on the north side, one of them with a doorway breaking into its lower right corner. The south wing has 4 similar 2-light windows, a shouldered doorway between the 3rd and 4th, and a chimney on the west slope of the gable. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms a group with Church of St Andrew (qv); included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD8458433979