1873 - Hanbury School - Church Langton, Leicestershire - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

This school and attached school houses were built in 1873 by Joseph Goddard. The foundation stone bears an inscription -

These schools
were founded for the education
and religious instruction
of boys and girls of this parish
by the
Revd William Hanbury MA,
Rector of Church Langton AD 1767.
Erected by the trustees of the
Hanbury Charity
AD 1873.
"Glory be to God on High and on Earth,
Peace, Goodwill toward men"

And there is a date stone below the bellcote on the front of the building.

"School with attached school houses. 1873 by Joseph Goddard. Brick with stone dressings. Late Gothic Revival style. Plain tile roofs. Continuous plinth with set-offs and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Single storey, 7-bay school room block has 3-bay gabled projection with stone coping with kneelers and gabled stone bellcote. Single lateral stack. Below a heavily chamfered pointed arch with circular stone plaque dated 1873 in its typmanum and tall, 2-light casement below. Either side; similar pointed arches with stone framed oculi in tympana and a 2-light casement, all beneath decorative brick hoodmould with stone carving at intervals. Below the central window a stone plaque inscribed, 'These schools were founded for the education and religious instruction of boys and girls of this parish by the Revd William Hanbury MA, Rector of Church Langton AD 1767. Erected by the trustees of the Hanbury Charity AD 1873. Glory be to God on High and on Earth, Peace, Goodwill toward men'. To right of the 3-bay gable a single 3-light window followed by another, then a buttress with stone shield inset, then another 3-light window followed by a single light window. All windows have cambered arches, and continuous dogtooth hoodmould. To right again, a lower, separately roofed 2-bay lobby with a pointed doorway with hoodmould and part glazed double plank doors. Above a stone plaque inscribed B ys School. To right again, a door- way with shouldered arch and part glazed plank door providing access to the school house. On the far left of the main block, a similar lobby arrangement with plaque inscribed Girls School. The house attached to the right has a diagonally placed and heavily moulded gable stack and 2 similar lateral stacks. First floor string- course. 1 single storey bay and a single 2 storey bay with gable, moulded eaves cornice and kneelers. To left, a 3-light casement with moulded shouldered arch above. To right, a 6-light bay window with plain tile roof, and above 2 single- light casements side by side beneath a moulded brick arch. The house attached to the left has 2 diagonally placed, moulded lateral stacks and is of 2 bays, 2 storeys. There is a trio of ascending lancets with hoods to right and to left a 5-light bay window with plain tile roof, and above a 3-light casement beneath a moulded, shouldered arch."

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Year of construction: 1873 Full inscription: A.D. 1873 Cross-listed waymark: Not listed

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