Saltaire School Including Wall, Gate Piers And Sculpted Lions To Front Area, And Gate To South Side

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SHIPLEY VICTORIA ROAD (west side) Saltaire Saltaire School including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and gate to south side

GV II*

School, now part of Shipley College. Dated 1869. By Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Italianate-style. Single storey. Three pedimented pavilions joined by a tower, 3-bay open colonnade with lower rooms behind. The central pavilion-has central part breaking forward with 2 round-arched windows with console keystones flanked by Corinthian columns which support an entablature. The tympanum is elaborately carved with a roundel bearing the Salt coat of arms with an alpaca to each side and foliage decoration. Above is an elaborate bell-turret (bell missing) with the carved figures of a boy and a girl and a globe. The side pavilions project and each has a single large Venetian window. In the tympanum of each is a roundel with the initials ' T. S. ' with surround. Deep, bracketed eaves cornice and pediments with acroteria. A 9-bay, 2-storey wing projects at the rear. The left and right returns are of 8 bays, with 3 bays to each side of a more elaborate 2-bay gabled centre. Round-arched archivolted windows, those to centre with Corinthian colonnettes and single oculus over. Basement to right elevation due to sloping ground.

Low, rock-faced stone boundary wall to front area. Cast-iron railings to right and left sides with round bars and dog-bars with spear-head finials. Two pairs of square ashlar piers to centre with caps removed. Two large corner piers with sculpted lions by Thomas Milnes of London,' representing Determination and Vigilance.

The school was designed to take 750 children, boys and girls. segregated, in the two principal rooms, and infants in the smaller central room.

The school is set back from the road and the front area, along with that of the Institute opposite (q.v.) forms a gardened square.

Part of Saltaire model village.

D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, 1978

A. Holroyd, Saltaire and its Founder, Sir Titus Salt, Bart., 1873

Listing NGR: SE1388737896