Library At Sherborne School is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. A C13 Library. 1 related planning application.
Library At Sherborne School
- WRENN ID
- iron-kitchen-honey
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Library
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ABBEY ROAD 1. 1625 (South East Side) Library at Sherborne School ST 6316 1/4 28.11.50. I GV 2. Probably C13 incorporating at the south end Saxon remains of the north-west transepts to the Abbey. 2 storeys, originally comprising a cellarer's range below and an Abbey Guest Hall with C15 roof above. East face divided into 8 bays by wall shafts of late C14 cloister. Medieval features include staircase at South-East angle, C13 one-light window, six C15 windows, part of open timber roof. Acquired by the School 1851; many subsequent alterations. [See RCHM Dorset VolI "West Dorset" and J H P Gibb". The Saxon Cathedral at Sherborne"].
The following buildings of Sherborne School surround the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary and form a group with themselves and with the Abbey Church of St Mary.
Listing NGR: ST6376416507
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