Kingsley Park Middle School

The following building shall be included:

ST GEORGE'S AVENUE SP 7562 and SP 76 SE 10/600 and 14/600 Kingsley Park Middle School

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School. Dated 1915; by Sharman and Archer of Wellingborough. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Sprocketted hipped plain tile roof with deep wooden modillion eaves cornice. Brick axial stacks with moulded stone caps; 2 central ashlar stacks.

Long front range with entrance in centre-piece, main hall in parallel range behind and 2 rear wings. Wrenaissance style.

2 storeys and basement at front, 2 and 3 storeys at rear. South front 9:3:3:3:9 bays. Central 9 bays advanced with stone pilasters and deep frieze with wreaths, the centre 3 ashlar bays break forward with open segmental pediment on consoles with dated cartouche and festoons in the frieze. All the windows have keystones, the centre 3 bays in moulded archives, the centre first floor with voluted canopy with large keystone and festoons. Central doorway with open pediment on consoles with cartouche above semi-circular fanlight and with panelled and glazed double doors. The lower flanking 9 bays, keystones, stone cills and brick aprons to windows.

Over the centre a wooden cupola with louvred sides, corner pilasters and ball finials and finial over dome. Parallel hall range at rear with round-headed clerestory windows and pedimental gables over round arch rear doorway; flanked by gable-ended rear wings. All sash windows with glazing bars and top opening lights.

Interior: Main hall has a balcony arcade on south side with iron balustrades and pier pilasters with consoles breaking the cornice above; similar consoles on window piers on north side; segmentally vaulted plaster ceiling and panelled dado. Entrance hall also has dado panelling, round-headed arches and round window lights. Roof over 'seminar room' has exposed arch braced trusses. Panelled library.

Note: Designed by Sharman and Archer and built by J G Pullen and Son of Northampton at a cost of £28,735, as the Northampton Grammar School for Girls.

Sources: Information provided by Northampton Borough Council. Buildings of England p. 339.

Listing NGR: SP7598562043