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

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map