Primary School

EAST KNOYLE CHURCH ROAD ST 83 SE (north side) 8/12 Primary School GV II National school, now closed. 1872-73 by George Aitchison Jnr., paid for by Alfred Seymour of Knoyle House. Limestone ashlar, steeply pitched tiled roof with coped verges. L-plan. Single- storey. Entrance front at right angles to road; shouldered doorway with flat stone hood on consoles and carved fluted pilasters, two 2-light windows to left with Moorish cusped heads and central shaft, dripstone. To right of door is gable end of main schoolroom with large pointed window of 3 lights separated by shafts and with oculi over each, tympanum filled with ornate plate tracery of floral arrangement, moulded string course carried over as hoodmould, square sundial to gable and turret at apex for weathervane. Main front to road has five 2-light windows with Moorish heads and centre shafts, eaves of roof carried on extended rafters with carved ends. East gable end has rose window. Rear of wing and main range have cross windows and 2-light mullioned casements. An unusually original and expensive village school, provided by the local gentry. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol XI, 1980)

Listing NGR: ST8793530487