War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh School

Heritage listing

Details SEDBERGH SD6591 STATION ROAD, Sedbergh Town 162-1/20/435 (South side) 14/06/84 War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh School (Formerly Listed as: BUSK LANE War Memorial Cloister at Sedbergh School) GV II* War memorial. 1924, by Hubert Worthington; with an addition of c1945-50. Sandstone ashlar. Built into the slope of the ground in front and below the Classroom Block (qv), so that the top forms a detached grassed forecourt to that building, with a flight of steps descending from its centre to the centre of the cloister facing south; and a memorial seat added on the north side of the forecourt a little to the north of the steps. The cloister has a wide U-plan: a 5-bay arcade flanked by short but wide 3-bay arcaded wings, all the arches round-headed. The main arcade has short square piers with a raised square panel on the front of each, moulded imposts and moulded heads to the arches with keystones run up to a continuous frieze, and a plain parapet. In the spandrels of the outer pair of arches are carved shields; the frieze is inscribed "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE", and a raised panel in the centre of the parapet is inscribed "DVRA VIRVM NVTRIX". Each wing has a large central arch flanked by smaller window arches, with a pair of lion masks in the spandrels, and a raised panel on the parapet with inscription "MDCCCCXIV" (on the left) and "MDCCCXVIII" (on the right). The return sides of the parapets continue northwards to enclose the sides of a grassed garden. Inside the cloister each bay has a dome-vaulted ceiling, and the rear wall has a central archway to the steps flanked on each side by 4 bays of blind arcading. Each blind arch contains a wreathed panel with painted lists of names, the inner four (1914-18) totalling 248 names and the outer four (1939-45) totalli

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.