Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	place:-	King's Meaburn School
	locality:-	King's Meaburn
	parish	King's Meaburn parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		school
	coordinates:-	NY62262093
	10Km square:-	NY62
	1Km square	NY6220
		school, King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- Cumbria / -- 12.3.2010
		school, King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- Cumbria / -- Inscribed stone:- -- 'This SCHOOL Erected & Endowed by Subscription A.D. 1831' -- 30.5.2006
	source:-	OS County Series (Wmd 8)
		County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
		Endowed School
	date:-	1860=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1860s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		SCHOOL / / / KINGS MEABURN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 422785 / NY6226220907
		courtesy of English Heritage
		School, dated 1831 with later extension to south. Coursed, squared rubble with quoins. Graduated slate roofs; original building has stone chimney to north end and small bellcote to south. Single storey, 4 bays overall. Blocked door in north wall. On west side, the 3 semicircular-headed windows with glazing bars have projecting keystones and an impost band to their stone surrounds; date panel with inscription over central window. Extension has 3-light window with stop-chamfers to mullions and surround. Late C20 flat-roofed addition on east side not included.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY62262090
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
		photographs
		school, King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- Cumbria / -- 30.5.2006
		school, King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- King's Meaburn -- Cumbria / -- School bell. -- 12.3.2010
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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