Locally Listed Building: Mostyn House School, The Parade, Parkgate (LL64)

Mostyn House School LL64 (Previously LL PG/6) Address: The Parade, Parkgate Architect: AS and AG Grenfell (later additions) Date: 1779 Description Incorporates a number of 18th and 19th century buildings, including the George Inn (1779) later the Mostyn Arms Hotel. Purchased by Edward Price who moved his school in 1855 to Parkgate from Tarvin and called it Mostyn House School (most of the land in Parkgate is on the former Mostyn Estate. The estate sold off the village in 1849). The buildings were later extended and increased in height (approx. 1900) and then in 1932 the present applied black and white frontage was added, presumably as an attempt to unify a varied collection of buildings. The listed chapel at the rear was designed and built by the Headmaster, AG Grenfell, opened in 1897 with windows by Robert Anning Bell. The carillon (37 bells) was installed as a memorial to the school’s Old Boys killed in the 1914-1918 war (c1920?). Mostyn House was the birthplace (1865) of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, renowned for his missionary work amongst Labrador fishermen in the 1890s. The Water Tower was built in 1906 to store water from the school’s own artesian well. Condition Good. Current Use In use as school and dwelling. Updated March 2007