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| Heron Theatre, Beetham | ||
| Heron Theatre | ||
| Beetham School | ||
| locality:- | Beetham | |
| civil parish:- | Beetham (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | theatre | |
| locality type:- | school (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | SD49767943 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4979 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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 BRJ82.jpg (taken 5.9.2009)  BRJ83.jpg The heron. (taken 5.9.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 7) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Grammar School (Endowed)" "" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "OLD SCHOOL / / STANLEY STREET / BEETHAM / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76599 / SD4978479423" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Former School now Village Hall. Rebuilt in 1827 on site of Grammar School founded in 1663. Limestone rubble walls with roughly-dressed limestone quoins and window surrounds; graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge. Roughly T-shaped plan. Single storey. Blocked doorway in South-West gable; inserted doorway in return has board door. Pointed-arched windows to all but North-East elevation, that in South-East gable with traceried glazing bars: all others blocked but said to have leaded glazing. Chimney on South-East gable and corniced bell-cote in dressed limestone surmounted by pyramid on South-West gable." |
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 BRJ84.jpg Sign:- "South Westmorland Stage &Screen Society / THE / HERON / THEATRE" (taken 5.9.2009)  BRJ85.jpg Foyer. (taken 5.9.2009) |
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