The Study Block

AMPLEFORTH AMPLEFORTH ABBEY SE 57 NE

5/3 The Study Block (previously listed as Ampleforth College 9.9.85 study block) GV II

School building. c1860. By Charles Hansom, probably with his brother Aloysius. Rock-face limestone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. In Victorian Gothic style. 2 storeys with attics. 11 first floor windows. Gables to either end, that to left largely obscured by further building, that to right with octagonal clock tower attached at left. All ground floor windows are trefoil-headed and transomed beneath flat hoodmoulds and apart from one single and one 3-light window to the left and one of 6 lights to the right gabled bay, all are of paired lights. Clock tower: Tudor-arched doorway and single-light square-headed staircase windows. First floor: 2-light double-transomed trefoil-headed windows with quartrefoil tracery to central section with exception of small trefoil-headed single light to first bay, 3-light traceried window divided by 2 rows of diaper work to second bay and 4-light oriel to seventh bay . The right gabled bay has pairs of 2-light transomed square-headed windows at 2 levels. Attic: 4-light transomed square-headed window to left gable end. 7 dormers to central section. 3-light window, divided by panels bearing shields and with blind reticulated tracery to right gable end. Clock tower: 2-light belfry openings with diaper work beneath and clocks to 2 faces. Embattled parapet. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.

Listing NGR: SE5988578852