Collaton St Mary School

SX86SE 1947-1/2/170

PAIGNTON

BLAGDON ROAD, Collaton St Mary (North East side) Collaton St Mary School

GV II

School. c1866, probably designed by JW Rowell of Newton Abbot, who also designed the parish church (qv), some C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Local red snecked breccia; slate roof; stacks with red breccia shafts , 2 retaining stone caps; crested ridge tiles. PLAN: T-plan, the main block containing two classrooms, heated from gable end stacks, with one original entrance; heated rear wing with a L roof plan. EXTERIOR: Single storey. Asymmetrical 3-window front with a gabled projecting porch with a round headed shouldered outer doorway and a blind trefoil carved in the gable. 2 windows to the right, one to the left, 3- and 4-light with stone mullions and shoulder-headed lights. Probably C20 secondary door inserted to right of porch. The rear wing also preserves 2 original windows in the same style as those on the front. C20 additions at west end and in north east corner. INTERIOR: Plain, the original open roof trusses survive, partly concealed by an inserted ceiling. HISTORY: The school is part of a group of buildings promoted by the Reverend John Roughton Hogg, who had the church built by Rowell in 1867 to commemorate his daughter, Mary Hogg. It was a church school until 1930 when it became a junior school and was granted aided status in 1952 (Bovett). (Buildings of England: Cherry B and Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 838; Bovett, Robert: Historical Notes on Devon Schools: Devon: 1989-: P.244).

Listing NGR: SX8637960184