The Church Room Including Letterbox in South Wall
THE CHURCH ROOM INCLUDING LETTERBOX IN SOUTH WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107244
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Church Room Including Letterbox in South Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHURCH ROOM INCLUDING LETTERBOX IN SOUTH WALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107244
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Church Room Including Letterbox in South Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHURCH ROOM INCLUDING LETTERBOX IN SOUTH WALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHURCH ROOM INCLUDING LETTERBOX IN SOUTH WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mariansleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7440622085
Details
SS 72 SW
5/89
MARIANSLEIGH
The Church Room including letterbox in south wall
GV
II
Schoolhouse, now in use as the parish hall. Probably 1840s, built before 1850,
(Whites Devon (1850)), converted to a Sunday School by 1839 (White's Devon (1879).
Colourwashed and rendered, probably cob on stone rubble footings; corrugated asbestos
roof, (formerly thatched), gabled at ends; left end stack with brick shaft. Gothick
style in vernacular materials.
Plan: Extremely small, rectangular on plan with the entrance on the south side. A
lean-to at the left (west) end formerly housed the village pump.
Exterior: Single-storey. The south elevation has one Gothick window to the left
with a 2-centred arch, Gothick glazing bars and some panels of circa mid C19
ecclesiastical stained glass, possibly originating in the parish church which was
severely damaged by fire in 1932. To the right there is a C20 plank door with a
Gothick fanlight with curved glazing bars. A Victorian letter box is in the wall to
the left of the door: this was the subject of a letter to the Times in the 1930s
when the Reverend W.V. Tatham complained that it was too small to accommodate the
village post (Tull).
Interior: Not inspected.
The school was probably converted to a Sunday School in 1876 when a large school was
built at Oxham following the compulsory Education Act.
An unusual survival of a very small schoolroom pre-dating the 1870 Education Act.
Listing NGR: SS7440622085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97619
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1850)
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1879)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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