Hallow School

Hallow School is a village school built in 1857 by William Jeffrey Hopkins, with mid-20th century alterations and additions. The building is constructed of brick with blue brick surface ornamentation and stone dressings, topped with tiled roofs featuring parapets and kneelers at the gable ends. It is designed in a High Victorian Gothic style, showcasing an asymmetrical layout. The large main schoolroom range is to the east, accompanied by a smaller, parallel range that includes a prominent bell tower and a small cross-wing to the south.

The school is single storey with an attic, featuring blue brick bands and a blue diaper frieze at mid-wall height and below the eaves. Corner buttresses with offsets and large, multi-light traceried windows adorn the gable ends. The main elevation faces east, where the range to the right of the bell tower includes a 4-light and a 3-light flat-headed window, separated by an early 20th-century gabled porch with a pointed doorway and a trefoil opening above. A brick chimney with offsets is located at the junction of the porch roof ridge and the main roof. The gable end of the south cross-wing features a 3-light window and a circular opening above, pierced with a quatrefoil.

The bell tower consists of three stages. The lower stage has buttresses with offsets, a pointed doorway with a hood mould, and a broad, round-lobed, part-glazed quatrefoil frieze above. The second stage has three narrow lights, while the third stage features a clock face recessed within a moulded circular surround, with three part-louvred, part-traceried openings on each face of the bell turret. The tower is topped with a tall pyramidal roof covered in fishscale tiles and a weathercock.

Hallow School was founded in 1712 by Bishop Lloyd, with funding from Anne Bull, a local benefactress who died in 1707. She left money to purchase land for the endowment of schools in Hallow, Grimley, and Madresfield. The school had fallen into disrepair by the early 19th century, leading to the construction of the current building using funds from the rent of Anne Bull's lands.