Former Bampton Primary School

BAMPTON

SP3103 CHURCH VIEW 1289/13/10004 Former Bampton Primary School 01-MAR-01

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National school, now youth club. 1863; by William Wilkinson of Oxford. Rock-faced limestone with Bath stone dressings. Steeply-pitched state roofs with stone coped gables. Stone axial and lateral stacks with weathered set-offs. PLAN: An arrangement of classrooms in two parallel ranges with a cross-wing on the left [S] end. High Victorian Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 1 storey. Asymmetrical 5-bay east front; large gabled cross-wing on left with integral gabled porch on its left, two smaller gables set back at centre and large gabled porch on right; the porches have depressed 2-centred arch doorways with plank doors with ornate strap-hinges and buttresses with weathered set-offs, the right-hand porch with inscribed plaque in gable indicating that the freehold was granted by the Earl of Shrewsbury to the parish; the gables have large 2, 3 and 4-light mullion windows with cusped heads; at centre later C19 small flat-roofed addition. Gabled 3-bay rear [W] elevation, large gable on right with smaller gable to its left and gabled wing projecting on left with lateral stack to left of centre with weathered set-offs; two right gables have large 4-light mullion-transom windows. Similar windows in gables on north side. South side has large mullion-transom window breaking eaves and later C19 flat-roof addition. INTERIOR: Classrooms with arch-braced roofs. SOURCES: The Builder,XXI [1863], 485.

Listing NGR: SP3131703111