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Manor Close, SOUTHWELL, NG25 0TG

18th Century house with a later extension in the same style.

Built in 1874 and close in 1983 because it no longer met appropriate standards for a local authority school, it has found further life as the Kindergarten and Pre-Prep department of a local Preparatory School.

Built in 1870 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6542944 , it closed as a village primary school in 1984, although it has since been used as a reception class annexe to a private junior school based in Calverton.

Rainwater hopper dated 1870. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6542943 for location.

This school opposite the church was built by public subscription in 1870 and it continued educating local children for more a hundred years until it was forced to close in 1984. Even By 1978 £3,000 was needed for renovations to its fabric. No support for its continued use as a school had come from the church; furthermore the church's future role in it was being questioned. Fortunately for local families however, the case for its retention as a village school was successfully made in that same year. Following its later closure however, by the Nottinghamshire Education Authority, the school was reopened as a private school called Salterford House Kindergarten and Pre-Prep School.

The Grade I-listed Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul is seen here from Manor Close. It is generally thought that a church existed at Oxton at the time of the Domesday survey although it has been suggested that it would probably have been smaller and probably aisle-less. As an adult, the son of the Rev. William Mompesson of Eyam Plague fame became a prebendary of Oxton and Crophill. As an infant his son was evacuated to Sheffield in 1666, prior to the plague taking hold of that village. This occurred before the quarantine was agreed, after which time all the Eyam villagers were pressured into staying put.