Church Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Church rooms.
Church Rooms
- WRENN ID
- peeling-facade-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Church rooms
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Rooms, formerly known as the Old School (Boys), is a former church school that now serves as meeting rooms. It was built in 1828 and is constructed of ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof that features stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks on the north gable. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. It has a plinth and chamfer-mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, each with three lights and a horizontal-bar insert, but no label. Between the upper windows, there is an oval plaque that reads 'Built by subscription 1828'.
On the north gable, there are two 2-light windows at ground floor level, along with a plain basement doorway accessed from the steps leading to the north-east gate of the Church of SS Peter and Paul. Above this doorway is a modern casement window. The south gable features a wing wall with coping that extends southwards, concealing a lean-to building that has two boarded doors in cambered-arched doorways. High in the south gable, there is a 4-light mullioned window with a gable vent above it.
The interior has not been seen. This building was originally established as a charity school for boys and a Sunday School, but it was replaced by larger structures in 1879. Much of the funding for its construction was provided by the vicar, Henry Bond, and J.B. Edmonds, who also supplied the site and the stone used in the building.
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