Former Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. A C19 School. 1 related planning application.
Former Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pillar-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Sunday School, Sandy Hole, Merriott, TA16 5PS
- OS grid reference
- ST 442 128
- Coordinates
- 50.91226, -2.79497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Anglican Sunday School, built in 1834, is now part of Merriott First School. It is constructed from ham stone rubble, with gables and dressings made of ashlar, and features a Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables topped with cross finials and metal ventilators along the ridge. The building is single-storey and consists of five bays.
The west elevation has hollow-chamfered mullioned windows that are two-light with segmental arched heads and incised spandrils, all set beneath square labels. The central bay contains an elliptical-arched recess under a square label, featuring a pair of studded and boarded doors that are accessed by a flight of six stone steps with a wrought-iron handrail. Above the doorway is a plaque that reads, "Redeem thy Creator in the days of thy youth - Ecc 12."
There is an extension on the north gable behind a wing wall, which has a plain doorway. The south gable features a high-set, four-light transomed window with a plaque above that states "Merriott Sunday School 1834." The east elevation mirrors the west, but the central bay has a taller window with a transom, with the head set into a gable. The interior has not been seen but is reportedly little altered.
By 1861, the building was being used as a National Day School, and in 1875/6 it became a mixed Board school after the construction of the Infants Board school across the road. Both schools merged to form Merriott First School in 1972.
Local climate
Former Sunday School receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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