Church Cottage Former School And School House Parish Room

GAMLINGAY CHURCH STREET TL 2452 (South side) 12/67 Parish Room and 94 (Church Cottage) (Former School and School House)

GV II

School and schoolhouse, now parish room and cottage. 1848. Patterned brickwork of red brick stretchers and yellow brick headers. Slate roof. Internal stacks. Cottage is two storeys. Lozenge shaped leaded lights and ovolo mullions to two first floor casements. A single light, central window is similar. Two ground floor cross-frame similar leaded light casements on either side of doorway in gault brick porch with four centred outer arch. West gable end has shield of arms of Clare College, Cambridge and below W.1848 W. The school room at the rear forms a T-plan. Similar brickwork and slate roof. Single storey. Three bay west front with slightly projecting and pedimented centre bay. A stone panel inscribed "Gamlingay Schools 1848" in the tympanum. Two cross-frame lozenge shaped leaded lights. The outer bays have cross-frame casements of three lights. Inside: the former school room retains a reredos. Reset possibly from Chapel of St Etheldreda, Ely Place, London or from the chapel in Hatton Garden, Holborn parish. Wood, originally grey marbelled and now painted brown. In two heights with two side panels flanking a pedimented centre piece. Side panels flanked by Corinthian pilasters have bolection and fielded panels the upper having segmental heads. The tympanum of the pediment has a winged cherub head and garlands of fruit, flowers and ears of corn. Bracketted central corbel supporting a floral knot. The reredos bears some resemblance to work carried out by Wren at Merton College Chapel and in the City churches.

RCHM: West Cambs mon (6) Wren Society: XVII (1941) p 188 p1 IX elevation and plan NBR Photo neg AA 51/6210

Listing NGR: TL2416052285