Old School Room, Chew Magna

Old School Room
Old School Room
	The Old School Room on the left with the NatWest Bank to the right
Location	Chew Magna, Somerset, England
Coordinates	51°21′58″N2°36′33″W / 51.36611°N 2.60917°W Coordinates: 51°21′58″N2°36′33″W / 51.36611°N 2.60917°W
Built	c. 1510
Owner	Chew Magna Old School Room Charity
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated	21 September 1960 [1]
Reference no.	1135935
	Location of Old School Room in Somerset

Last updated June 10, 2019

The Old School Room in Chew Magna, Somerset, England was built around 1510. It is a Grade II* listed building.^[1]

Chew Magna is a village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 1,149.

Somerset is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west. It is bounded to the north and west by the Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel, its coastline facing southeastern Wales. Its traditional border with Gloucestershire is the River Avon. Somerset's county town is Taunton.

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

It was built as a church house for the neighbouring Church of St Andrew. The upstairs room was the local school from the mid or early 15th century, with the village poorhouse below. The ground floor was divided into cubicles which housed the destitute and occasionally prisoners. It also served as the meeting place of the Court leet.

Poorhouse facility to support and provide housing for the dependent and needy

A poorhouse or workhouse is a government-run facility to support and provide housing for the dependent or needy.

The court leet was a historical court baron of England and Wales and Ireland that exercised the "view of frankpledge" and its attendant police jurisdiction, which was normally restricted to the hundred courts.

The building was declared unsafe in 1965. In 1971 the building underwent major renovation, which included replacement of oak beams supporting the upper floor were replaced and preservation work on the wooden roof carried out.^[2]^[3]^[4] The building was then used as a youth club until it was purchased by the parish council in 1981 as a village hall. Since then it has been a venue for social activity in the village.^[5]

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References

1 2 Historic England. "The Old School Room (1135935)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 April 2015.
↑ Durham, I. & M. (1991). Chew Magna and the Chew Valley in old photographs. Redcliffe Press. ISBN 1-872971-61-X.
↑ "Chew Magna conservation area character appraisal" (PDF). Bath and North East Somerset. p. 15. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
↑ "Parish Council Profile". Chew Magna. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
↑ "Chew Magna is the best village in Britain, according to new survey". The Post. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

External links

Charity Commission. Chew Magna Old School Room Charity, registered charity no. 282301.

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[nhle-1] 1 2 Historic England. "The Old School Room (1135935)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 April 2015.

[durham2-2] Durham, I. & M. (1991). Chew Magna and the Chew Valley in old photographs. Redcliffe Press. ISBN 1-872971-61-X.

[3] "Chew Magna conservation area character appraisal" (PDF). Bath and North East Somerset. p. 15. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

[4] "Parish Council Profile". Chew Magna. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

[5] "Chew Magna is the best village in Britain, according to new survey". The Post. Retrieved 7 September 2013.