Building record 1162300000 - CHURCH HALL, OVING ROAD

Grade II. Hall, formerly school. 1866, by George Devey, extended 1883. Red brick with blue diapers, irregular rubble stone quoins and plinth. Old tile roof. One storey, 2 bays. Left bay has 3-light stone mullion window with diamond leading. Right bay is gabled to front, with moulded bargeboards and pendent finial, off-set buttress to left, and similar 4-light window with transoms. Above window is a small recessed brick panel with a diamond motif in blue brick. Lean-to of brick and weatherboard to right. Later wing to rear also has stone mullion windows, 2-light flanking 3-light, but with plain glazing. Entry to south in angle between wings (B1).
Village school and master's house designed by George Devey for Revd Alfred Turner and built in 1863-4. The school building cost £510, the house £140. There is a perspective drawing and 2 photographs in RIBA's Devey Collection; 6 drawings, including plan, elevations and section in the Bucks Record Office collections (B2).
The National School was opened by Rev Alfred Turner, the vicar of Whitchurch, who had collected £1,400 to fund it (B5).