Description

WITNEY CHURCH GREEN SP3509S (West side) 11/36 Henry Box School 14/05/52 (Formerly listed as The Grammar School with gateposts and wall leading to the School)

GV II*

School. Datestone "Henri Box, A.D.l660". Roughcast over limestone rabble, with chamfered plinth and ashlar quoins and dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof; ashlar ridge stacks, with 3 diamond-set flues to each stack of centre range and 6 similar stacks to side-wing stacks. U-plan with front wings. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 6-window range of 1:4:1 fenestration. 2-light stone-mullioned cellar windows. Central panelled double-leaf doors set in chamfered stone architrave. String course continued as hood moulds over 4 chamfered stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows, each with lunette in head. String course continued to 2-storey gable ends of side wings, each with cross windows. Gabled roof dormer with leaded casements. Inner side of side wings have 2-panelled doors set in chamfered architraves, chamfered transomed lights, and a cross window to right. Outer side walls have similar cross windows. Rear: 3 cross windows, chamfered stone light, C20 door set in stop-chamfered stone architrave and 4 cross windows each with lunette in head. Interior; central schoolroom; coved cornice; end walls each have chamfered stone fireplace and C18 semi-circular arched door with fluted pilasters and moulded capitals: left end wall has fluted pilasters to gallery with mid C17 moulded handrail to balustrade. Side wings have stop-chamfered beans, quarter -turn stairs with turned balusters at attic level and C17 ribbed doors in attic. Collar-truss roof with butt purlins. (Mary A. Fleming, Witney Grammar School, l660-l960, 1960); Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846; J.A. Gotch, The English Home, 1918, fig.70; National Monuments Record).

Listing NGR: SP3542809308

External Links

• The Henry Box School at Wikipedia
• The Henry Box School official website
• Wikidata Q15223665

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