button to main menu   Old Cumbria Gazetteer
placename:- Heversham Girls School
locality:- Heversham
parish Heversham parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
school
coordinates:- SD49788359
10Km square:- SD48

1Km square SD4983

photograph

Heversham Girls School (?) -- Heversham -- Heversham -- Cumbria / -- 3.7.2009
photograph

Heversham Girls School (?) -- Heversham -- Heversham -- Cumbria / -- Plaque:- -- '' -- 3.7.2009

source:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 15)

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.
School
date:- 1860=1869
period:- 19th century, late; 1860s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
THE OLD SCHOOL NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER / / / HEVERSHAM / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76497 / SD4959483456
courtesy of English Heritage
Old Girls School. Initials and date JG / 1838 on gable. Slobbered rubble walls with stone dressings; graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge. Single storey. Gable to left. 3 2-light windows with trefoil heads to lights, hood moulds and chamfered stops. The school was built as the first Girls School in Heversham at the expense of James J. Gandy of Kendal. Work started to erect it and a school house in the Churchyard without permission. After a number of meetings had been held it was resolved that the school could be built in the Churchyard, provided it was fenced off, and land adjacent to the Churchyard was donated by George Wilson of Dallam Towers on which a School House (q.v) was erected at the expense of the Hon Mrs Howard. Further details: Curwen, John F. History of Heversham with Milnthorpe, pub. Titus Wilson, Kendal 1930.
district:- South Lakeland
listed building
coordinates:- SD49598345
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.

©  Martin and Jean Norgate: 2012
mailto button  email:- JandMN@norgate.freeserve.co.uk
button, online connection  Other projects

button, online connection  Geography Department, Portsmouth University