St Johns Priory School And Attached Walls

BANBURY ST. JOHN'S ROAD SP4540SW (South side) 9/205 St. John's Priory School and 08/07/75 attached walls (Formerly listed as St. John's Priory School)

GV II

School. Mid C19 with earlier origins, probably incorporating the medieval remains of the C13 Hospital of St. John the Baptist. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched tile roof, stone coping to left with gargoyle, brick ridge and end stacks on rendered bases. 2 storeys plus attic and basement; 5-window range altogether. Rectangular plan with porch projection and brick extensions to rear. 2-storey porch has pointed arched doorway with chamfered jambs, hood mould with foliated stops, pointed plank door and wooden gates. Porch has 2-light windows with cusped heads and glazing bars. Ground floor has four 2-light windows, one with Gothic glazing bars. Wood lintels or stone arches. First floor has five 2-light casements, 2 with rounded heads and stained glass to chapel, the others with glazing bars and square heads. Wood lintels. 5 gabled roof dormers with Gothick glazing bars. Interior: open well staircase, Gothick details in cupboard doors, doors and niches. Roof noted as having 2 tiers of C16 windbraces. Coursed ironstone walls extend to left and right of porch, that to right returning to link with main range. Acquired in 1851 for school use by the sisters of the Charity of St. Paul. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.X, p.29; Potts, W., A History of Banbury, 1978, p.80).

Listing NGR: SP4535440096