Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | St George's CofE Primary School | |
| parish |
Barrow-in-Furness borough,
once in Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| school | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD20376880 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD26
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | SD2068 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| ST GEORGES CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL / / SCHOOL STREET / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388593 / SD2037668805 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| School. 1849. For the Furness Railway Company. Red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, graduated slate roof. Single storey, 3:3:1:1 bays; bays 1-3 and bay 7 are projecting gables, entrance in right return; gabled wing to rear. Rock-faced quoins. Central recess has 3 square-headed windows with later casements; blind 3-light mullioned window in half-dormer. Left gable has projecting sills and quoined reveals to 3 pointed-arched windows with later casements, the central window larger; shaped kneelers and moulded gable copings. Narrower right gable has Tudor-arched window, matching kneelers and copings and trefoil in corbelled base for a bell turret. Tudor-arched window to end bay on right. Right return: altered doorway has concrete lintel beneath original Tudor-arch; coped gable with terracotta cross. Link block set back on right adjoins No.2 Salthouse Road (qv). Built for Furness Railway employees' children. Formed part of the nucleus of the new town based on the railway terminus in St George's Square. | ||
| district:- | Barrow in Furness | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD20376880 | |
| person:- | : Furness Railway | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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