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Latitude: 51.7813 / 51°46'52"N
Longitude: -1.4878 / 1°29'16"W
OS Eastings: 435428
OS Northings: 209308
OS Grid: SP354093
Mapcode National: GBR 6VS.8N6
Mapcode Global: VHC02.5H99
Plus Code: 9C3WQGJ6+GV
Entry Name: Henry Box School
Listing Date: 14 May 1952
Last Amended: 3 March 1988
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1212271
English Heritage Legacy ID: 252630
ID on this website: 101212271
Location: Witney, West Oxfordshire, OX28
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Witney
Built-Up Area: Witney
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Witney
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Secondary school Academy school
WITNEY CHURCH GREEN
SP3509S (West side)
11/36 Henry Box School
14/05/52 (Formerly listed as The Grammar
School with gateposts and wall
leading to the School)
GV II*
School. Datestone "Henri Box, A.D.l660". Roughcast over limestone rabble, with
chamfered plinth and ashlar quoins and dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof;
ashlar ridge stacks, with 3 diamond-set flues to each stack of centre range and
6 similar stacks to side-wing stacks. U-plan with front wings. 2 storeys and
attic; symmetrical 6-window range of 1:4:1 fenestration. 2-light stone-mullioned
cellar windows. Central panelled double-leaf doors set in chamfered stone
architrave. String course continued as hood moulds over 4 chamfered
stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows, each with lunette in head. String
course continued to 2-storey gable ends of side wings, each with cross windows.
Gabled roof dormer with leaded casements. Inner side of side wings have
2-panelled doors set in chamfered architraves, chamfered transomed lights, and a
cross window to right. Outer side walls have similar cross windows. Rear: 3
cross windows, chamfered stone light, C20 door set in stop-chamfered stone
architrave and 4 cross windows each with lunette in head. Interior; central
schoolroom; coved cornice; end walls each have chamfered stone fireplace and C18
semi-circular arched door with fluted pilasters and moulded capitals: left end
wall has fluted pilasters to gallery with mid C17 moulded handrail to
balustrade. Side wings have stop-chamfered beans, quarter -turn stairs with
turned balusters at attic level and C17 ribbed doors in attic. Collar-truss roof
with butt purlins.
(Mary A. Fleming, Witney Grammar School, l660-l960, 1960); Buildings of England:
Oxfordshire, p.846; J.A. Gotch, The English Home, 1918, fig.70; National
Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: SP3542809308
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