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| school, Sedbergh (2) | ||
| Street:- | Back Lane | |
| locality:- | Sedbergh | |
| civil parish:- | Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school (once) | |
| coordinates:- | SD65769203 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6592 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD69 | |
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 BUX80.jpg (taken 8.7.2011)  BUX82.jpg Door, note date:- "17 16" (taken 8.7.2011) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Old Grammar School placename:- School Library item:- date stone (1716) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (NOW THE SCHOOL LIBRARY) / / BACK LANE / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 484503 / SD6577592030" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Grammar school, now library. Dated 1716 on original doorway in west front; altered in C19, internally remodelled in 1957-8 by Sir Albert Richardson. Random rubble with lacing courses, freestone quoins and dressings, stone slate roof. Rectangular plan on east-west axis, with original entrance in west gable end." "EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The gabled west front, with raised rusticated quoins, a plain 1st-floor string-course carried round and a band over the upper floor, gable copings with kneelers and a corniced gable chimney. Round-headed doorway (now blocked internally) with pilaster jambs, moulded imposts, moulded head with keystone, double doors each with 2 bolection-moulded panels, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Doorway framed by a pilastered architrave which has entablatures to the pilasters inscribed "17" (left) and "16" (right), a triglyph frieze and a segmental pediment; and in the centre of the upper floor a rectangular wall tablet with moulded surround and cornice, containing a carved shield. The 7-window north and south side walls, both very regular, have round-headed windows on both floors, the lower much taller then the upper, all with raised sills and pilastered architraves with imposts and keystones, and all with renewed wooden mullions and transoms, and small-paned leaded glazing. Both sides have moulded gutters on curved metal brackets, and the south side has one rainwater head between the 4th and 5th windows. The east gable end, with gable copings and chimney like the west end, has an ex situ C17 doorway and door." "INTERIOR: remodelled by lowering of ground floor and insertion of galleries in this room; restored dog-legged staircase at east end, with closed string, square newels with ball finials, turned balusters and moulded handrail." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County series (Yrk 63) |
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| source data:- | "Free Grammar School" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Thompson 1894 placename:- Old School, The |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, The Old School, 1716, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, by S A Symington, published
by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894. click to enlargeTHP107.jpg On p.51 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. printed at lower right:- "[S A Symington]" item:- Armitt Library : A1612.B7 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Clark and Hughes 1890 |
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| source data:- | Print, woodcut, old door of Sedbergh School, 1716, drawn by Edward G Paley, published
by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 1890. click to enlargeCH0205.jpg This door is in a building which was a chapel and library for the school in 1890. On vol.1 p.58 of The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. item:- private collection : 195.6 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Clark and Hughes 1890 |
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| source data:- | Print, Adam Sedgwick's name and the date he left the school, 1803, on a building at
Sedbergh School, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
1890. click to enlargeCH0206.jpg SW corner of a building which was a chapel and library for the school in 1890. On vol.1 p.59 of The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. item:- private collection : 195.7 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BUX81.jpg Coat of arms. (taken 8.7.2011) |
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