St Georges Primary School And Boundary Wall

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE ST GEORGE'S ROAD 680-1/8/367 (East side) St George's Primary School and boundary wall

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Former board school, now primary school, and boundary wall. c1875. By William Freeman of Hull for the Newington School Board. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with small gabled ventilators. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, coped gables with kneelers. Single storey plus tower; 15-window range. Central square entrance tower, 2 stages, has clasping buttresses, string course, corbel table and pyramidal roof with 4 louvred hipped dormers, topped with a weather vane. Pointed arched entrance with a pair of half-glazed doors and traceried overlight with hoodmould. Above, 2 single lancets with an inscribed blind arcaded band below them. Returns have a similar truncated single window. All these openings have hoodmoulds and an ornamented impost band. Flanking wings containing classrooms have a slightly projecting central block with a central gable with 2 traceried double lancets and above them, a foiled round window. All these windows have hoodmoulds. Beyond, single stone mullioned cross casements. On the inner sides, lower linking ranges each with 2 stone mullioned cross casements, the right range with a large raking dormer with a 3-light glazing bar casement. Beyond, a large gabled through-eaves dormer with a traceried double lancet with hoodmould. Right return, to Arthur Street, has a central square projection with a pyramidal roof and a gable through-eaves dormer with a traceried double lancet. To its left, a stone mullioned cross casement. To its right, a projecting gable with a hipped wooden bell turret on brackets, and below, a shallow gabled porch with a pair of doors under a plate-traceried overlight. On either side, a single flat-headed window. Outside, adjoining brick boundary wall with chamfered ashlar coping and intermediate piers with chamfered caps. Pair of gatepiers with similar caps to main entrance. Plain coped wall to right return has a pair of plain capped gatepiers.

Listing NGR: TA0724928485