Building record 1160/477/1 - Kingsley Park Middle School (Formerly Northampton School for Girls)

School. Dated 1915 by Sharman and Archer of Wellingborough. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings.

{1} School. Dated 1915 by Sharman and Archer of Wellingborough. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Sprocketted hipped plain tile roof with deep wooden modillion eaves cornice. Brick axial stacks with moulded stone caps; 2 central ashlar stacks. Long front range with entrance in centre-piece, main hall in parallel range behind 2 rear wings. Wrenaissance style. 2 storeys and basement at front, 2 and 3 storeys at rear. South front 9:3:3:3:9 bays. Central 9 bays advanced with stone pilasters, frieze with wreaths, the centre 3 bays in moulded archives, the centre first floor with voluted canopy with large keystones and festoons. Central doorway with open pediment on consoles withcartouche above semi-circular fanlight and with panelled and glazed double doors. The lower flanking 9 bays, keystones, stone cills and brick aprons to windows. Over the centre a wooden cupola with louvred sides, corner pilasters and ball finials and finial over dome. Parallel hall range at rear. Clerestory windows and pedimented gables over round arch read doorway; flanked by gable-ended rear wings. All sash windows with glazing bars and top opening lights. INTERIOR: Main hall has a balcony arcade on south side with iron balustrades and pier pilasters with consoles breaking the cornice above; similar consoles on window piers on north side; segmentally valuted plaster ceiling and panelled dado. Entrance hall also has dado panelling, round-headed arches and round window over 'seminar room' has exposed arch braced trusses. Panelled library. NOTE: designed by Sharman and Archer and built by J G Pullen and Son of Northampton at a cost of £28,735, as the Northampton School for Girls. SOURCES: Information provided by Northampton Borough Council.

{3} Northampton School for Girls, St George's Avenue. 1915 by Sharman and Archer. Part of the group of Technical College and Technical School. Symmetrical, neo-Georgian, with a turret. Brick, but the centre, including a segmental pediment, stone-faced. Nice ranges of the 1950s behind.

{5} Nine photos dated 1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 10+14/600 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H14 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN1000.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.339 (checked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> NORTHAMPTON BOROUGH COUNCIL, 1990?, Information Provided by Northampton Borough Council, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN105802.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Northampton (Photographs). SNN114989.

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