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Holy Trinity School

A Grade II Listed Building in Hoghton, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7282 / 53°43'41"N

Longitude: -2.584 / 2°35'2"W

OS Eastings: 361564

OS Northings: 425912

OS Grid: SD615259

Mapcode National: GBR BTDB.C8

Mapcode Global: WH970.8KR8

Plus Code: 9C5VPCH8+79

Entry Name: Holy Trinity School

Listing Date: 30 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1072495

English Heritage Legacy ID: 184400

ID on this website: 101072495

Location: Riley Green, Chorley, Lancashire, PR5

County: Lancashire

District: Chorley

Civil Parish: Hoghton

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Hoghton Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


HOGHTON PRESTON ROAD
SD 62 NW
2/146 Holy Trinity School
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GV II

School, now house. 1838 rebuilding of school founded by Sir Charles
Hoghton in 1709; enlarged 1873; altered. Coursed sandstone, slate roof.
Three bays and 2 storeys with large single-storey wing on each side. Tudor
style; 1st floor band, buttresses (diagonal at the corners), recessed
mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hoodmoulds: in each bay one
5-light window at ground floor and two 2-light windows above; at north
gable a gabled 2-storey porch with moulded arched doorway and a carved
stone tablet above showing a bull and a griffon. On east side the single
storey wing has a prominent side-wall chimney stack with offsets and
coupled octagonal flues with moulded caps, a 2-light window to the right of
this, and in the gable wall a very large 5-light mullioned window, a
single-light opening in the apex; in the angle is a lean-to porch to the
main range with a moulded Tudor-arched doorway, a window in the side wall,
one window to the left and 2 above, like those at front. All gables have
stone coping with kneelers and apex finials. (Re-located datestone in
garden wall states that wing was added 1873 by Sir H de H). Included for
group value with Church of the Holy Trinity on opposite side of road.


Listing NGR: SD6156425912

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