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Old School, Greenholme
Old School
Greenholme School
locality:-   Greenholme
civil parish:-   Orton S (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school (ex) 
locality type:-   village hall (? now) 
coordinates:-   NY59720573
1Km square:-   NY5905
10Km square:-   NY50
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BTV94.jpg (taken 31.12.2010)  
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BTV95.jpg  School bell.
(taken 31.12.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 28 7) 
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)"

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
Page 156:-  "..."
"... At Greenholm a school was founded by George Gibson, gent. 1733, who died in the same year."

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G823B323, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.323  "Rosegill, Oct. 2."
"..."
"GREENHOLME, in the parish of Orton, founded in 1733, by George Gibson, esq. and endowed by him with 400l. original Bank Stock."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Old School
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OLD SCHOOL / / / ORTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74094 / NY5973305726"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"School; present use uncertain. Probably mid C19 with later additions and alterations. Slobbered rubble, with quoins, on boulder plinth. Graduated slate roof. Single tall storey with lower porch set back, adjoining right-hand return; originally 3 bays, extended 1 bay to left. Plank door and small casement in porch. 3 tall fixed windows with glazing bars; 2nd bay from right is blank (flue rises behind). Small bell in right-hand gable. Stone chimney to left-hand end, stepped stone chimney to eaves."


photograph
BTV96.jpg  Door.
(taken 31.12.2010)  
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BTV97.jpg  Door handle.
(taken 31.12.2010)  

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