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placename:- Rigmaden School
parish Mansergh parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
school
coordinates:- SD60168278
10Km square:- SD68

1Km square SD6082

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Rigmaden School -- Mansergh -- Cumbria / -- 10.11.2006
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Rigmaden School -- Mansergh -- Cumbria / -- Carved stone:- -- '1839 Laus Deo' -- 10.11.2006

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43 16)

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.
Rigmaden School (Endowd)

placename:- Rigmaden School
school
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
RIGMADEN SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HOUSE / / CHAPEL LANE / MANSERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75719 / SD6017082789
courtesy of English Heritage
Former school and house. Lintel reads: "1839/LAUS DEO". Stone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. T-plan, single storey, the house with attic in north wing. Rusticated quoins and decorative bargeboards. South wing of 3 bays with gabled porch to south return. Windows in ashlar surrounds have casements. Entrance has decorated lintel with date under label mould, with panelled door. Panel reading: "RIGMADEN SCHOOL" between 2nd and 3rd bays has crest above. Cross-axial stack with diagonal shafts. West wing has casement window and gabled dormer to south; window with small-paned fixed glazing under drips tone to west; entrance with plank door to north. North wing has sashed window; gabled dormer and small triangular-headed light. Gabled porch has finial and label mould to entrance with 9-panel door, 3 glazed. Gable-end stack. East elevation has attached outbuilding entrance under canopy to south end, dormer window to north end. Area to south-west has plain iron railings on stone base and squeeze stile.

placename:- Rigmaden School
district:- South Lakeland
listed building
coordinates:- SD60178278
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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tiny photograph, 
button to large Rigmaden School -- Mansergh -- Cumbria / -- Carved stone, crest and:- -- 'RIGMADEN SCHOOL' -- 10.11.2006

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