King Edward VI Grammar School And Railings

TF 4066-4166 7/47

SPILSBY CHURCH STREET (north side) King Edward VI Grammar School and railings

G.V. II

Grammar school and railings. Founded 1550. C18, altered 1896. Red brick in Flemish bond, ashlar dressings, pantile roof with stone coped gables and gable stack, machine plain tile roof. Cast iron railings. 2 storey, 4 bay C18 range with plinth, first floor band, altered C19, with 4 glazing bar sashes to ground floor set in plain ashlar surrounds with keystones and deep cills. Inscribed on one "Grammar School, founded 1550". To first floor 4 glazing bar sashes with yellow brick segmental heads. To right a single storey block of 1896 with planked door and 2 small paned overlights set in ashlar surround with deeply dentillated cornice. To right a gabled bay with tripartite window arrangement of glazing bar sashes and overlights in flush wide ashlar surround with above a segmental headed inscription panel recording the rebuilding in MCMXIV. The later addition to the rear is not included in this description. In front of the building are 10 cast iron fluted columns with mushroom knops and chains, made by Gibson of Stamford.

Listing NGR: TF4003066127