War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh School
WAR MEMORIAL CLOISTER AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384218
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL CLOISTER AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384218
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL CLOISTER AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
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:
- WAR MEMORIAL CLOISTER AT SEDBERGH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65528 91912
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6591 STATION ROAD, Sedbergh Town
162-1/20/435 (South side)
14/06/84 War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh
School
(Formerly Listed as:
BUSK LANE
War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh
School)
GV II*
War memorial. 1924, by Hubert Worthington; with an addition of
c1945-50. Sandstone ashlar. Built into the slope of the ground
in front and below the Classroom Block (qv), so that the top
forms a detached grassed forecourt to that building, with a
flight of steps descending from its centre to the centre of
the cloister facing south; and a memorial seat added on the
north side of the forecourt a little to the north of the
steps. The cloister has a wide U-plan: a 5-bay arcade flanked
by short but wide 3-bay arcaded wings, all the arches
round-headed.
The main arcade has short square piers with a raised square
panel on the front of each, moulded imposts and moulded heads
to the arches with keystones run up to a continuous frieze,
and a plain parapet. In the spandrels of the outer pair of
arches are carved shields; the frieze is inscribed "THEIR NAME
LIVETH FOR EVERMORE", and a raised panel in the centre of the
parapet is inscribed "DVRA VIRVM NVTRIX". Each wing has a
large central arch flanked by smaller window arches, with a
pair of lion masks in the spandrels, and a raised panel on the
parapet with inscription "MDCCCCXIV" (on the left) and
"MDCCCXVIII" (on the right). The return sides of the parapets
continue northwards to enclose the sides of a grassed garden.
Inside the cloister each bay has a dome-vaulted ceiling, and
the rear wall has a central archway to the steps flanked on
each side by 4 bays of blind arcading. Each blind arch
contains a wreathed panel with painted lists of names, the
inner four (1914-18) totalling 248 names and the outer four
(1939-45) totalling 192. Aligned with the top of the steps to
the forecourt is a hexagonal 2-stage stone bench with
inscriptions on alternate sides of the upper stage recording
the names of 3 former pupils awarded the Victoria Cross in
1941 (2nd Lieut. G.W.Gunn and Major-General J.S.Campbell, both
at Sidi Resegh, and Flg.Off.Kenneth Campbell at Brest).
An exceptionally well conceived war memorial of great dignity,
the descendng steps serving as a metaphor of interment, but
leading to light.
Forms group with classroom block (qv) to north and Powell Hall
to north-west (qv).
Listing NGR: SD6552691910
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 3 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484651
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 3 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/457
War Memorials Online, accessed 3 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/122005
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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