Cirencester County Junior School

CIRENCESTER

SP0201 VICTORIA ROAD 578-1/6/322 (East side) Cirencester County Junior School

II

School. Dated 1880. Rock faced limestone with ashlar dressings; clay tile roofs with coped verges to main range, half-hipped to side wings; ashlar left- and right-end stacks with moulded tops to main range. Later wings to rear in brick with Welsh slate roofs. Jacobethan style; main range set back from Victoria Road with 3 gables, 2 breaking forward slightly to left and right; attached side wings breaking forward slightly, each with one gable. Main range is single-storey 5-window. To centre one 4-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window, 3 lights high, with king mullion to centre, leaded lights, in ashlar surround breaking forward and continued upwards to moulded stone cornice and shaped gable with carved decoration including date 1880, flanked by 2 ball finials and with decorative finial at apex. Flanking central window, two 2-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom windows with leaded lights in ashlar surrounds. 2 similar 3-light windows in gabled bays to left and right each with floating pediment over. Plinth with moulded top, moulded string below windows. 3 bays to centre have pilaster strips flanking central window; ashlar frieze, moulded stone cornice and balustraded parapet with panelled dies with pierced finials over breaking forward over pilaster strips and flanking windows; pediment ramped up to central gable. Coped gables to left and right have pointed finials on kneelers and at apex. Single-storey screens linking main range to side wings each have plank doors in pointed opening with moulded stone surround, to left with slit window over; shaped gable with moulded stone coping and finial at apex. Flanking side wings in similar style to main range each have one 3-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom window with leaded lights with floating pediment over. INTERIOR not inspected. School opened on this site in 1881 as Upper School for Boys, superseding Cirencester Grammar School (Park Lane, qv), later renamed Grammar School, now Junior and Infants School. (Welsford J: Cirencester: A History and Guide: Gloucester: 1987-: P.142).

Listing NGR: SP0285601483