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Latitude: 50.7979 / 50°47'52"N
Longitude: -1.9879 / 1°59'16"W
OS Eastings: 400948
OS Northings: 99819
OS Grid: SZ009998
Mapcode National: GBR 31M.VLQ
Mapcode Global: FRA 66QZ.HCY
Plus Code: 9C2WQ2X6+5R
Entry Name: Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
Listing Date: 16 January 1974
Last Amended: 2 February 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1119576
English Heritage Legacy ID: 107067
ID on this website: 101119576
Location: Wimborne Minster, Dorset, BH21
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Wimborne Minster
Built-Up Area: Wimborne Minster
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Wimborne Minster St Cuthberga
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: School building
SZ 0099 NE 2/44
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GRAMMAR SCHOOL LANE
(east side)Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (formerly listed as
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School,King Street)
GII
Dated 1851 on date stone.Architects Morris and Hebson.Imposing almost symmetrical building in Tudor style of two storeys and attics,red brick with blue diaperwork with stone mullioned windows and dressings.Tiled roof with ornamental cresting tiles and many shafted plain rectangular stacks.Central coped gable with Perpendicular style traceried window with niche over on first floor and Tudor arched door below with decorated spandrels,now converted into a window,flanked by single lightstone windows.To right and left of this are slightly projecting towers.These have narrow Tudor arched doors on the ground floor and first floor crocketted statue niches flanked by small stone windows.Above are octagonal brick and stone lanterns with original lead cupolas, stone gargoyles and weathervanes.To the right is a section with a four light mullioned and transomed window on ground floor and a three light window above. The balancing section to the left has two windows similar, but all three light.To the extreme ends of the front are slightly projecting gabled wings with canted stone mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor and stone mullioned windows with hood moulding to first floor.
Listing NGR: SZ0094899819
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