Spring Hill School

SE 37 SW 5338 6/89 24.1.86

NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE NORTH STAINLEY WITH SLENINGFORD A6108 (west side, off) Spring Hill School (formerly listed as Episcopal Palace - now part of Spring Hill School)

GV II

Former palace of the Bishops of Ripon, now school, with attached chapel. Palace 1841, chapel completed 1847. Ashlar, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, main range with 7 first-floor windows, recessed service block to right with 3 first-floor windows and enclosed yard to right; a covered passage with doorway in north side links the service block to the 4-bay chapel which projects at right-angles to the house. Palace in Jacobean style, chapel in high Gothic. Main range: glazed door left in 2-storeyed porch with diagonal buttresses, shields and heraldic beasts. 2- and 3-light round-headed mullion windows with hood-moulds over. External stack to left of entrance. Battlemented parapet interrupted by small gables with narrow attic windows. Large evenly-spaced stacks. Rear: garden entrance in single-storey annexe with cross-windows. Chapel: large 3-light mullion and transom windows with Perpendicular tracery to east and south sides. Buttresses, gargoyles and battlemented parapet. Interior: original doors, door surrounds, staircase to palace; original chapel fittings survive, including elaborately-carved screen and stalls. Stable block attached to north-west end of main range - separately listed.

Listing NGR: SE3016272995