Description

LEEK

SJ9856SW ALSOP STREET
611-1/6/11 (East side)
Hargreaves School

II

School, now in partial use as commercial premises. Dated 1873.
Brick with stone dressings and green slate roof. Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5-window range. Tower over entrance to
left, slightly advanced. Stumpy recessed columns carry deeply
moulded archway of entrance between buttresses with stone
gablets. Dated with its name in a tablet above the doorway.
2-light traceried window above, and rose window in coped
gablet below mansard roof. Lower windows in main school-room
range to right are paired, with stilted arches and foliate
capitals to the central shaft. Continuous hoodmould and cill
band. Upper windows alternately paired cusped stilted arches
divided by shaft with foliate capital, and foiled 2-light
windows beneath coped gablet. All upper windows linked by
continuous cill band and hoodmould, and many retain original
leading. Coped gables and ridge cresting throughout.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The school was built for Leek Congregational Church and named
after a former minister. A convincing composition in Gothic
Revival style.

Listing NGR: SJ9828656236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558960

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)