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| Crosby on Eden School, Low Crosby | ||
| Crosby on Eden School | ||
| locality:- | Low Crosby | |
| locality:- | Crosby-on-Eden | |
| civil parish:- | Stanwix Rural (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| coordinates:- | NY44765960 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4459 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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 BUY74.jpg (taken 22.7.2011)  BUY75.jpg Plaque:- "NATIONAL SCHOOL 1844" (taken 22.7.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 9) |
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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. "National School" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Crosby on Eden School |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CROSBY ON EDEN SCHOOL / / / STANWIX RURAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77664 / NY4477259595" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "School. Dated 1844. Dressed red sandstone, slate roof. Single storey, 2 bays. Projecting gabled porch with shaped entrance arch and hood moulds. Inscribed panel over entrance NATIONAL SCHOOL with date and wall clock above: surmounted by corbelled stone bellcote. Chamfered surrounds to windows with hood moulds and diamond-panel cast-iron casements. Modillions to gutter, hipped roof. Sides and rear altered with C20 windows and additions, but facade as built. Cost L350 raised by subscription aided by a grant from the National Society. See, Mannix &Whellan's, Directory of Cumberland, 1847, p,188." |
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 BUY76.jpg School gates:- "CROSBY ON EDEN SCHOOL" (taken 22.7.2011) |
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