Perrin'S Hall At Worcester Royal Grammar School

WORCESTER

SO8455NE UPPER TYTHING 620-1/8/654 (East side) 19/01/89 Perrin's Hall at Worcester Royal Grammar School

GV II

School hall and former library. 1913-15 by Alfred Hill Parker for Mr. C W Dyson Perrins; builder J & A Brazier of Bromsgrove. Red brick with stone dressings. Plain clay tile roof with parapets to eaves and gables. 6-sided projecting stack with moulded stone cap to left of centre of front and rear elevation. Jacobethan style with ornamental shaped-gables. West (principal) elevation: 2 storeys. 5 first-floor windows; 4 to left are 2-light with mullion and double transoms; to right is projecting full-height gable with tall 5-light semi-circular oriel staircase window with mullions and double transoms. Stone detailing includes quoins, window surrounds, plinth and string courses, copings to parapets, brackets and finials to gables, open lattice balustrading to flat roof of apse, entrance loggia and steps, carved plaque incorporating corbelled base to oriel window. Central entrances accessed via 4 steps and through 3 semi-circular headed open archways of loggia. Single-storey, parapeted flat-roofed block to left with pair of 2-light mullioned windows. Small single-light window to each side of plaque below oriel window. Left-return: polygonal apse with small 2-light mullion window flanking central buttress; cartouche. Right-return: Full-height break-forward to centre with tall 3-light mullioned window with double transoms to first-floor; incorporates some stained glass. Four 2-light mullioned windows to ground-floor. Cartouche to apex of gable. To right is later block. Rear-elevation: Four 2-light mullioned windows with double transoms as per principal elevation. The windows to all elevations have ornamental leaded glazing. Basement purpose-built (and still used) as a rifle-range for the Officer Training Corps. INTERIOR: Gallery to S end of hall. Elaborate plasterwork ceiling with egmental-arched vault supported on scrolled brackets. Moulded and carved panelling to sill height. Lozenge motif to doors, repeated on gallery balustrade and plasterwork. Fireplace has inlaid marble panels, wooden surround with double pilasters, curved pediment and carved overmantel with festoons and Royal arms. Staircase has wrought-iron balustrade and oak handrail. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 325; Anon: A Short History of the Royal Grammar School Worcester: 1985-).