Bath Lane Higher Grade Schools

Bath Lane Higher Grade Schools

HER Number
6295
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Bath Lane Higher Grade Schools
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Education
Site Type: Broad
School
Site Type: Specific
School
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The schools were built along the newly formed Corporation Street from the 1870s. Was listed grade II. Demolished 1987 and delisted 2017.
Former listing description:
School, now storage. Dated 1870 in vesica in left gable peak. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. One high storey, 6 bays and right entrance bay. Gothic style. Square-headed moulded surround to double door under panel with low relief BATH LANE SCHOOL; 5 cusped lights over and roundel in low-pitched gable peak. Shouldered surrounds to 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows of 4 central bays; bar tracery to 4-light stone mullioned-and-transomed windows in gabled end bays with vesica in left and six-foil window in right gable peak.
Easting
424290
Northing
564280
Grid Reference
NZ424290564280
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map