St Marys School
ST MARYS SCHOOL, 5, POTTERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388737
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys School
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARYS SCHOOL, 5, POTTERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388737
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARYS SCHOOL, 5, POTTERGATE
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:
- ST MARYS SCHOOL, 5, POTTERGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 97983 71758
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE POTTERGATE
1941-1/9/310 (East side)
08/10/53 No.5
St Mary's School
GV I
House, now a school. C14 and C15, remodelled c1760, raised and
extended early C19, with rear addition c1910. Dressed stone
and brick, with stone dressings and gabled and hipped slate
roofs. 4 brick side wall stacks, plus a medieval round side
wall stack.
EXTERIOR: chamfered string course to main block, chamfered
plinth to south end, single coped gable.
Main block, 3 storeys, 5 bays, double range plan, has 2-storey
wings. Slightly projecting off-centre bay with a chamfered
stone doorcase, 6-panel door and overlight. To its left, 2
plain sashes, and beyond, 2 larger glazing bar sashes. To the
right, a glazing bar sash. Above the door, and to its right,
single margin light sashes. To the left, a smaller sash, and
beyond, 2 larger sashes with glazing bars. All these windows
have splayed lintels. Above again, 3 glazing bar sashes, and
an off-centre blank panel.
Left wing, c1820, single bay, has parapet. Single glazing bar
sash, and above it, a 2-light casement.
Right wing has parapet, and 2 glazing bar sashes with joggled
lintels on each floor. In the parapet, 2 blank panels. Above
again, an off-centre gabled dormer, late C19.
INTERIOR has an outstanding and rare Palmyrene plaster
ceiling, mid C18, probably by Sir William Chambers. Panelled
entrance hall with mid C18 cantilever wooden dogleg stair with
landings, vase and stem balusters (3 per tread), and ramped
scrolled handrail. The landing is carried on a moulded beam
and Doric piers. Segmental vaulted cellar, C15, with chamfered
ribs.
From c1400 till c1726. this building formed a single property
with No.4 Pottergate (qv).
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 491-492; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses
in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1984-: 74-95; Report and overall
assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular
properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK9798371758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486198
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 491-492
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (1st fascicule), (1984), 74-95
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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