Spring Hill School

Spring Hill School, formerly the palace of the Bishops of Ripon, is now a school with an attached chapel. The palace was built in 1841, and the chapel was completed in 1847. It features ashlar stonework and a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys, with the main range containing seven first-floor windows. To the right is a recessed service block with three first-floor windows and an enclosed yard. A covered passage with a doorway on the north side connects the service block to the four-bay chapel, which projects at right angles to the main building.

The palace is designed in the Jacobean style, while the chapel is in high Gothic style. The main range includes a glazed door on the left within a two-storeyed porch that has diagonal buttresses, shields, and heraldic beasts. There are two- and three-light round-headed mullion windows with hood-moulds above them. An external stack is located to the left of the entrance, and the battlemented parapet is interrupted by small gables with narrow attic windows. The rear features a garden entrance in a single-storey annexe with cross-windows.

The chapel has large three-light mullion and transom windows with Perpendicular tracery on the east and south sides, along with buttresses, gargoyles, and a battlemented parapet. The interior retains original doors, door surrounds, and a staircase in the palace, as well as original chapel fittings, including an elaborately-carved screen and stalls. There is a stable block attached to the north-west end of the main range, which is separately listed.