Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Rigmaden School | |
| parish |
Mansergh parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| school | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD60168278 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD68
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| 1Km square | SD6082 | |
![]() Rigmaden School -- Mansergh -- Cumbria / -- 10.11.2006 | ||
![]() Rigmaden School -- Mansergh -- Cumbria / -- Carved stone:- -- '1839 Laus Deo' -- 10.11.2006 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 43
16)
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| 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 | |
| photographs | ||
| Rigmaden School -- Mansergh -- Cumbria / -- Carved stone, crest and:- -- 'RIGMADEN SCHOOL' -- 10.11.2006 | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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