Knypersley School Knypersley School, Attached Archway And Frontage Wall

BIDDULPH C.P. NEWPOOL ROAD, Knypersley SJ 85 SE 7/35 Knypersley School, attached - archway and frontage wall

GV II

School. Circa 1850, by R.C. Hussey. Coursed stone; blue machine tile roofs; verge parapets on corbelled kneelers; stone side stacks with twin diagonal capping shafts; square end stacks to rear. 'E'-plan derivative and of Elizabethan inspiration. Frontage: 2 widely-spaced 2-storey, slightly projecting gables flank lower single-storey central range with gabled single-storey porch to centre. Gables have labelled stone-mullioned and timber-transomed casement windows to the first floor and 3-sided stone-mullioned and transomed bays to ground floor, with pitched solid block hipped roofs; 2-light stone-mullion and transom windows flank porch: round-arch entrance with carved banner relief over inscribed "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart/and lean not into thine own understanding". Pyramidal roofed belfry tower to right- hand rear of front. Lean-to set back to right; attached entry arch; elliptically arched opening in gabled wall with moulded coping and impost strings. Frontage to Newpool Road has stone wall approximately 1m high, with moulded coping on plain piers with circular pattern cut-outs running between. Built under the patronage of the Bateman family.

Listing NGR: SJ8800056776