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Latitude: 54.1519 / 54°9'6"N
Longitude: -1.5397 / 1°32'22"W
OS Eastings: 430162
OS Northings: 472995
OS Grid: SE301729
Mapcode National: GBR KNPF.GF
Mapcode Global: WHC7N.BW2Y
Plus Code: 9C6W5F26+Q4
Entry Name: Spring Hill School
Listing Date: 24 January 1986
Last Amended: 11 June 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1295968
English Heritage Legacy ID: 331093
ID on this website: 101295968
Location: North Lees, North Yorkshire, HG4
County: North Yorkshire
District: Harrogate
Civil Parish: North Stainley with Sleningford
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Tagged with: School building
SE 37 SW
5338
6/89
24.1.86
NORTH YORKSHIRE
HARROGATE
NORTH STAINLEY WITH SLENINGFORD A6108
(west side, off)
Spring Hill School (formerly listed as Episcopal Palace - now part of Spring Hill School)
GV
II
Former palace of the Bishops of Ripon, now school, with attached chapel.
Palace 1841, chapel completed 1847. Ashlar, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys,
main range with 7 first-floor windows, recessed service block to right with
3 first-floor windows and enclosed yard to right; a covered passage with
doorway in north side links the service block to the 4-bay chapel which
projects at right-angles to the house. Palace in Jacobean style, chapel in
high Gothic. Main range: glazed door left in 2-storeyed porch with diagonal
buttresses, shields and heraldic beasts. 2- and 3-light round-headed
mullion windows with hood-moulds over. External stack to left of entrance.
Battlemented parapet interrupted by small gables with narrow attic windows.
Large evenly-spaced stacks. Rear: garden entrance in single-storey annexe
with cross-windows. Chapel: large 3-light mullion and transom windows with
Perpendicular tracery to east and south sides. Buttresses, gargoyles and
battlemented parapet. Interior: original doors, door surrounds, staircase
to palace; original chapel fittings survive, including elaborately-carved
screen and stalls. Stable block attached to north-west end of main range -
separately listed.
Listing NGR: SE3016272995
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