St Mary'S Church Of England Primary School And Attached Walls

NOTTINGHAM

SK54NW MAIN STREET, Bulwell 646-1/1/779 (West side) St Mary's Church of England primary school and attached walls

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Primary school and attached walls. c1870. Rockfaced Bulwell stone with ashlar dressings and artificial slate roofs. Truncated gable and side wall stacks. Main range topped with gable ventilators, and a truncated turret at the crossing. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, quoins, string course, buttresses. Single storey; 7 bays. 2 parallel ranges, staggered. Street front has to left a gabled cross wing with a 5-light Geometrical traceried pointed arch window with polychrome head and triple ventilator above. To left, a 2-light cross casement, with a dated panel above. To right, 3 traceried flat-headed windows, 4 lights, then a gabled projection with a traceried 3-light pointed arch window. In the return angle, a smaller gabled porch with pointed arched recess and shouldered doorway. Both these openings have polychrome heads. Right return gable has a 4-light pointed arch traceried window divided by a buttress. Left return has flat-headed openings. In the centre, a door with a small window above. On each side, projecting gabled wings, the left one larger, each with a window on each floor. Outside, attached boundary wall, rock-faced Bulwell stone with rubble coping. The wall runs parallel to main street, extending in a curve approx 120m to north. To south, approx 30m, with a rounded corner to Ragdale Road. On Main Street, a small gateway with a pair of square piers and pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SK5417845581