Listed Building record MDO33155 - Pamphill First School, formerly Gillingham's Almshouses and School, Pamphill

Almshouses and school built in 1698. The central portion of the original building was the school, and a wing at each side accommodated four, and subsequently two, almshouses. The building is of brick with render and has a tiled roof.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 99270046) School (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 46, No 3 Photo (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(3) GILLINGHAM'S ALMSHOUSES AND SCHOOL (99270046), of one storey with brick walls and tiled and stone-slated roofs, were built in 1698. In the S. front (Plate 60) the gabled pavilion at the centre corresponds with the school and each wing contains two, formerly four, almshouses. The school-room doorway has a moulded stone architrave and an entablature with a segmental broken pediment. A stone tablet above the doorway records the 'pious and charitable gift of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple . . . Ao. Do. 1698'. In its original form each almshouse comprised a single room.’

<3> Watson, C, 2008, Pamphill Church of England First School, Pamphill, Dorset. Historic Building Report. (Unpublished document). SDO14397.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209571 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 12:29PM