Holy Trinity Parish Hall And Attached Wall,Railings And Lamp Standard To South And South West

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 CHURCH ROAD 853-1/6/29 (West side) 12/03/90 Holy Trinity Parish Hall & attached wall, railings & lamp standard to S & SW (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROAD (West side) Holy Trinity Parish Hall)

GV II

Parish hall, formerly a school. Dated 1862; probably by Foster & Wood of Bristol. Designed in a simple Gothic style. MATERIALS: coursed and squared slatestone rubble with limestone detailing. Slated roof, half-hipped on the south side; blue crested ridge riles. Large stone chimney (heightened in red brick) on south-west corner. PLAN: L-shaped plan: the main range runs east-west with wing and entrance porch on the south, lean-to on the north. EXTERIOR: seems to have been single-storeyed originally with a gallery at the west end; upper floor now inserted. Large, pointed, mullioned and transomed windows, with cusped heads to the lights, in east gable wall of main range and south gable wall of wing. Similar window in south wall of main range, but with flat head and shouldered arches to the upper lights. 2 single light windows with shouldered arches in the east wall, together with one in the shape of a trefoil. Gabled porch has moulded, pointed stone doorway; inner door with 6 chamfered panels (3 above and 3 below) and matching reveals. Doorway in west gable of main range has a pointed stone arch; 4-panelled double doors. It is reached by a stone bridge from higher ground at the rear of the building. North front is plain; C20 dormer windows inserted. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Boundary wall is of different build from the school itself, which it abuts. Stone rubble with coping of stones on edge, heightened on the north and north-west sides. The best work is on the south and south-east sides, facing Church Road and the steps up to the churchyard. Opposite the school porch the wall breaks to provide a gateway, the jambs having quoins of dressed stone and the wall tops decorated with shaped pieces of stone as if they were gate piers. Good iron gates with uprights having fleurs-de-lis finials (one missing). Similar railing on east side, extending along the wall top as far as the school building. On the wall at the south-west corner of the curtilage stands a C19 iron lamp standard with twisted and fluted shaft; lantern replaced in C20. The iron railing along the causeway immediately east of the parish hall is separately listed. HISTORY: according to The Builder, 1859 (p.7), the school was then expected to be built before the end of the year to designs by Foster & Wood of Bristol. Mr Richard Bligh of Ilfracombe was to pay for the building at a cost of »600-700, the school committee purchasing the site and fitting the building after completion. A datestone of 1862, however, shows that work was delayed and it should not be assumed that Foster & Wood's designs were eventually used.

Listing NGR: SS5144547334