Hall Cross Academy

Results in Doncaster at GCSE are notably low, but they are much better at A level, similar to the situation in Grimsby and Hull.

The building is a classic example of Victorian Gothic Revival, featuring a large Hammerbeam roof decorated with flowers cut into the massive oak beams which may, in fact, be stained pine.

The library features a large number of Victorian plaques, dedicated to past headteachers of the school as well as to staff and students killed in the two world wars.

It is a large detached Victorian Townhouse which overlooks the local church that the house is named after.

The house features a grand wooden staircase, stained glass skylights, and a statue of the Venus de Milo which originally resided in the Girls' School, built in 1918.

[1] It was last in revenue earning service with East Midlands Trains and was stored at Long Marston, not carrying its former name.

[3] The collection also includes nameplates from two locomotives destroyed as a result of the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash.