The Village Hall

SK69NE FINNINGLEY OLD BAWTRY ROAD (west side) 8/63 Parish Council Rooms - II The entry shall be amended to read:-

SK69NE FINNINGLEY OLD BAWTRY ROAD (west side) 8/63 The Village Hall (formerly the Finningley C of E School) - II

SK69NE FINNINGLEY OLD BAWTRY ROAD (west side) 8/63 Parish Council Rooms - - II School now parish council rooms. Converted from an C18 barn into school c1839 (Woodhouse pp 40-41); altered. Painted brick, renewed pantile roof. 1-storey, 5 bays. Central doorway with wide, studded door in eared architrave; shaped plaque above has arms and inscription: 'THIS SCHOOL AND THE ADJOINING HOUSE/WERE PRESENTED TO THE PARISH/ OF FINNINGLEY/AND ENDOWED WITH AN ANNUAL INCOME OF/TWENTY POUNDS/ BY/JOHN HARVEY ESQ/OF ICKWELL BURY/AD 1855' Other bays have projecting stone sills to large C20 casements with glazing bars beneath flat arches with keystones. Dentilled eaves. Remains of wooden bellcote at right end of ridge. Rev. Woodhouse (op.cit) notes that in 1836 £100 was given by John Harvey to buy a church clock; the money was eventually used to convert this building from a barn into a school room, (the freehold of which was given to the parish in 1855). Rev. G. A. Woodhouse, Finningley, 1877.

Listing NGR: SK6707099150